Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
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Title
Islam and the Army in Colonial India
Imprint
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Product Form
Electronic book text
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Genre
History
ISBN13
9780511576867
Book Category
Social Science Books
BISAC Subject Heading
HIS027000
Book Subcategory
Society and Culture Books
Language
English
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