M.C. Chagla and the “Nationalist” Imaginations of a “Political Minority” in India, 1947–67
This article is about some of the governmental experiences of the jurist/diplomat/minister M.C. Chagla, through which, it seeks to cast a certain light on the possibilities and limits of relations between a majority state and a minority individual, albeit of the privileged kind. Chagla’s pre-eminent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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Journal of Muslim minority affairs
Year: 2021, Volume: 41, Issue: 3, Pages: 491-509 |
| Further subjects: | B
Government Policy
B Partition B Jawaharlal Nehru B M.C. Chagla B Party Politics B India |
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| Summary: | This article is about some of the governmental experiences of the jurist/diplomat/minister M.C. Chagla, through which, it seeks to cast a certain light on the possibilities and limits of relations between a majority state and a minority individual, albeit of the privileged kind. Chagla’s pre-eminent presence in Bombay’s legal fraternity from 1922 and the High Court from 1941 bequeathed to him a sense of belonginess, which was largely untouched by the upheavals of 1947. His 11 years as Chief Justice, followed by five years as India’s envoy in U.S./U.K., saw him being elevated to the central cabinet, but not without a question mark at his non-party and non-majority identity. His short ministerial stint till 1967 ended over two issues of identity politics—a domestic language policy and an international crisis—providing a prism to see the coming together of competence, concerns and convictions around cooperation across parties, classes and communities. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9591 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Muslim minority affairs
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13602004.2021.1997274 |