Abstract In a time of dominant Hindu nationalism and rising Islamophobia in India, Urdu poetry is the medium in which an alternative political theology finds popular articulation, questioning the “normative horizon” of the nation-state. The political theology being articulated through Urdu poetry is one that is concerned not with the state, but with the constitution of the self through a network of thick relations to locality. The vision articulated by this alternate political theology—which draws on both long-standing Indo-Islamic traditions and the lived experience of Indian democracy—calls for a radical reimagining of intimate relations as the basis of belonging and the forming of political community.

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“印度斯坦是一个梦想”：乌尔都语诗歌与亲密关系的政治神学

摘要 在印度民族主义占主导地位和伊斯兰恐惧症在印度兴起的时代，乌尔都语诗歌是另类政治神学找到流行表达的媒介，质疑民族国家的“规范视野”。乌尔都语诗歌所表达的政治神学关注的不是国家，而是通过与地方的紧密关系网络来构建自我。这种另类的政治神学所表达的愿景——借鉴了长期存在的印度-伊斯兰传统和印度民主的生活经验——要求对亲密关系进行彻底的重新想象，作为归属感和政治共同体形成的基础。