Islam and the Army in Colonial India

Green, Nile:
Islam and the army in colonial India : Sepoy religion in the service of Empire / by Nile Green. - Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009. - XVI, 217 S. : Ill., Kt. - (Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 16)
ISBN 978-0-521-89845-4 / 0-521-89845-5
£ 50,00
DDC: 954.0088297
-- Angekündigt für Mai 2009 --

Beschreibung
A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book 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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of illustrations. viii
Preface and acknowledgements. ix
A note on terminology. xiv
Glossary of Urdu and Anglo-Indian terms. xv
Introduction. 1
1. Traditions of supernatural warfare. 17
2. The padre and his miraculous services. 31
3. Allah’s naked rebels. 90
Conclusions. 136
Notes. 150
Bibliography. 190
Index. 211

Autor

NILE GREEN, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, University of California, Los Angeles. Faculty profile.

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