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سید محمد احمد کاظمی

سید محمد احمد کاظمی
افسوس ہے پچھلے دنوں محمد احمد صاحب کاظمی کاانتقال ہوگیا۔مرحوم مولانا سید طفیل احمد صاحب منگلوری کے فرزند ارجمند اورایک نامور خاندان کے چشم و چراغ تھے۔الہٰ آباد ہائی کورٹ کے بڑے کامیاب ایڈوکیٹ اور ممبر پارلیمنٹ تھے۔ پارلیمنٹ میں وقف ایکٹ کے مصنف وہی تھے۔نیشنلزم گویاان کی گھٹی میں پڑا تھا۔کانگریس کے علاوہ جمعیۃ علمائے ہند اورمجلس احرار کے بھی سرگرم کارکن تھے۔ اخلاقی اعتبار سے بڑے درویش صفت اور خداترس انسان تھے۔گذشتہ سال جب کہ حج کرکے آئے تھے اس وقت سے ان کی دین داری میں عظیم انقلاب پیداہوگیا تھا۔آنحضرتﷺ کے ساتھ عشق کا یہ عالم تھا کہ نام نامی زبان پرآیا اورچشم پُر نم ہوگئی۔اسی جذبہ سے انگریزی زبان میں ایک ضخیم سیرت نبوی مرتب کررہے تھے جو افسوس ہے کہ نامکمل رہ گئی۔اﷲ تعالیٰ مغفرت وبخشش کی نعمتوں اورراحتوں سے نوازے۔ [دسمبر۱۹۵۹ء]

 

South Asian Orient: Colonial Epistemological Inquiry and its Modern Connections

As analysts assume that the South Asian regional political environment is difficult to comprehend due to its ethnic divisions and lingual bifurcations as the region hosts more than one and half billion inhabitants divided into India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, and Sri Lanka. Geographic diversity makes this region unique from all other regions in the world as it is bordered off the Persian Gulf and Arab world through the Indian ocean and opened up from Central Asia to the northern hemisphere. Such a racial, geographic, cultural, lingual and religious diversification had undergone epistemological inquiry during the colonial period in order to devise a central administrative system of regulating Raj’s affairs for the upcoming global world. Therefore, there emerged a unique sense of exploring the unfathomability and multiplicity of the scattering communalities. Through employing Edward W. Said’s critical framework, the present study exposes main theoretical Orientalist formulations by deconstructing major Western theories on South Asian cultures, geography and societies along with its connectivity to the overlapping of global power interests in the present world.

Post-Independence/Post-Colonial Pakistani Fiction in English: A Socio-Political Study With Focus on Twilight in Delhi, the Murder of Aziz Khan, Ice-Candy-Man and Moth Smoke

Title: Post-Independence / Post-Colonial Pakistani Fiction in English: A Socio-Political Study with Focus on Twilight in Delhi, The Murder of Aziz Khan, Ice-Candy-Man and Moth Smoke Since Independence in 1947, Pakistan, as a nation and state, has been grappling with socio-political and economic problems, the issue of national identity and even an existential dilemma. Its postcolonial existence has also been threatened by the failure of its leadership that lacked imagination and vision. Therefore, questions like “Can Pakistan survive?” have often been posed by the political pundits. The subject of this research is how Pakistan’s national texts, particularly creative writings in English, reflect socio-cultural and political transformations since Independence. Ethnically and linguistically, Pakistan is a pluralistic society, but the state has pursued centrist and unitary policies. Islam has been (ab)used to justify the unitary character of the state. Thus state and ‘ideological state apparatuses’ have been in collision with the natural pluralism of its society. Therefore, various conflicts have been raging and boiling over to shake the foundations of the state and the society. The response of Pakistan’s creative writers, with few exceptions, has been ambivalent towards these issues, until a new generation of young writers since early 1990s began to respond more openly and critically. In 1967, Zulfikar Ghose, with the advantage of geographical distance, gave a powerful critique of Pakistan’s new ruling elite in his novel The Murder of Aziz Khan. The same sentiments are expressed by Mohsin Hamid in his 2000 novel Moth Smoke. By analyzing these texts I have tried to show how Pakistan is frozen in time: its socio-political problems still persist with the same frequency and intensity. While analyzing Pakistan’s texts in English, I have tried to make use of the theoretical frameworks expounded by such social theorists as Michael Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser as well as the theoretical underpinnings of larger postcolonial theory. The study has a topical significance as Pakistani writers in English, in my view, after a long period of marginalization, are registering a strong presence in the global academia. This dissertation aims at contributing to the growing field of Pakistani literary studies and the wider English Studies.
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