Islam and the Army in Colonial India

Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire

By:

Nile Green

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

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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.

Author Biography:

Nile Green is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent publications include Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century: Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan (2006) and Religion, Language and Power (with Mary Searle-Chatterjee, 2008).

Release date NZ

May 14th, 2009

Author

Nile Green

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

236

Series

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

Dimensions

160x235x18

ISBN-13

9780521898454

Product ID

3084979

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