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SUMMARY:‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani\, Black Maoism\, and Islamic Soci
 alism in the 1960s - Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
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DESCRIPTION:1969 was a climactic year for global anti-imperialist uprising
 s\, with one of the few successful mobilisations occurring in Pakistan. A 
 crucial figure in these uprisings was Maulana Bhashani (1880-1990)\, popul
 arly known during this period as the ‘Mao-Lana’. This paper examines B
 hashani’s articulation of Islamic Socialism in the 1960s - the springboa
 rd for the militant and disruptive mobilisations in 1969 and thereafter. T
 his paper traces Maulana Bhashani’s encounters with black Maoists\, Musl
 im Communists and militant Afro-Asian comrades in his travels to China and
  Cuba in the 1960s and its influence on his domestic politics. I focus on 
 his creative reconceptualization of ideas of authority\, solidarity and co
 mmunity to forge a powerful relationship between the local and the interna
 tional.  I argue for a different understanding of decolonisation in the 19
 60s in contrast to Bandung politics\, and the development of a subaltern I
 slamic Socialism in South Asia. \n\nDr Layli Uddin is Senior Lecturer in P
 olitics and International Relations of South Asia\, SPIR and Co-Director\,
  The Centre for the Study of Race\, Class Empire (RCE) at Queen Mary Unive
 rsity of London. Layli Uddin is a political and social historian of modern
  South Asia\, bringing together interdisciplinary questions on religion\, 
 class and mass politics. Her research reconstructs subaltern political tho
 ught and movements in the context of decolonisation\, state-formation and 
 the Cold War. Her broader interests are in liberation theologies and subal
 tern geopolitics in the Global South. Layli Uddin is currently working on 
 her first book ‘Land of Eternal Eid: Making and Unmaking Pakistan\, 1930
 s-1971’.\n\nSpeakers:\nLayli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (Pavilion Room)\, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
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