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dc.contributor.authorJones, Justin
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-09T08:25:34Z
dc.date.issued2009-07
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses shifts within Islamic life, ritual and practice in the town of Amroha in the United Provinces of India, during the eventful period of approximately 1860-1930. Based primarily upon Urdu writings produced about or by residents of the town during this period, it examines the ways in which wider religious reformist movements such as those associated with Aligarh, Deoband and Bareilly were received and experienced within nearby smaller, supposedly marginal urban settlements. The article argues that broader currents of religious reform were not unquestioningly accepted in Amroha, but were often engaged in a constant process of dialogue and accommodation with local particularities. The first section introduces Amroha and its population, focusing upon how the town’s integrity was defined and described. The second section examines a plethora of public religious rites and institutions emerging during this period, including madrasas and imambaras, discussing how these were used by eminent local families to reinforce distinctly local hierarchies and cultural particularities. A third section considers public debates in Amroha concerning the Aligarh movement, arguing that these debates enhanced local rivalries, especially those between Shia and Sunni Muslims. A final section interrogates the growing culture of religious disputation in the town, suggesting that such debate facilitated the negotiation of religious change in a transitory social environment.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 43, Issue 4, pp. 871 - 908en_GB
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X08003582
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/9243
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0026749X08003582en_GB
dc.subjectIslamen_GB
dc.subjectMuslimsen_GB
dc.subjectIndiaen_GB
dc.titleThe local experiences of reformist Islam in a “Muslim” town in colonial India: the case of Amrohaen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2013-05-09T08:25:34Z
dc.identifier.issn0026-749X
exeter.place-of-publicationUnited Kingdom
dc.descriptionCopyright © Cambridge University Press 2008. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalModern Asian Studiesen_GB


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