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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521898454
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94499632
Product Key Features
Author
Nile Green
Publication Name
Islam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
160mm
Item Weight
520g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Nile Green
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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