TY  - BOOK
AU  - Purohit,Teena
TI  - The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India
SN  - 9780674067707
AV  - KNS46 
U1  - 344.54/7096 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Aga Khan-I,-1804-1881-Trials, litigation, etc
KW  - Ismailites-Legal status, laws, etc.-India-History-19th century
KW  - Khojahs-Legal status, laws, etc.-India-History-19th century
KW  - Religion and state-India-History-19th century
KW  - Tithes (Islamic law)-India-History-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Prehistories of the Isma'ili Sect in Nineteenth-Century Bombay -- 2. Sectarian Showdown in the Aga Khan Case of 1866 -- 3. Reading Satpanth against the Judicial Archive -- 4. Comparative Formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan "Sect" -- 5. Sect and Secularism in the Early Nationalist Period -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
N2  - An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe
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