Locale, Everyday Islam, and Modernity
Subtitle: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199455225
Subjects: Cities and towns; India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947; India, intellectual life; India, social life and customs
Description: This work presents qasbahs as centres of intense intellectual and cultural activity in colonial India and as networks of social life, education, print culture, literary production, and intellectual dialogue. It also demonstrates that the emergence of modernity among the Muslims was a process during their colonial encounter in which qasbah residents were active agents and the Islam that emerged was that of everyday living.