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Islam in History and Politics: Perspectives from South Asia »

Authors: Asim Roy
ISBN-13: 9780195698367, ISBN-10: 0195698363
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: October 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Asim Roy

Asim Roy is Professor, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

Book Synopsis

This book looks at the meaning of Islam and Muslum "community" and the changing nature of Muslim consciousness as it has evolved from the colonial state to near contemporary times.

1	Religious change and the self in Muslim South Asia since 1800	21
2	The composite culture and its historiography	37
3	Impact of Islamic revival and reform in colonial Bengal and Bengal Muslim identity : a revisit	47
4	Islamic responses to the fall of Srirangapattana and the death of Tipu Sultan (1799)	88
5	South Asian Muslims and the plague 1896-c.1914	97
6	Islam and the 'moral economy' : the Alwar Revolt of 1932	120
7	Coexistence and communalism : the Shrine of Pirana in Gujarat	147
8	Sikhs and Muslims in the Punjab	170
9	Ethnicity, Islam, and national identity in Pakistan	181
10	Islamization and democratization in Pakistan : implications for women and religious minorities	198
11	Salience of Islam in South Asian politics : Pakistan and Bangladesh	212