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A Muslim Conspiracy in British India? - Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth-Century Deccan (Hardcover)
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A Muslim Conspiracy in British India? - Politics and Paranoia in the Early Nineteenth-Century Deccan (Hardcover)
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As the British prepared for war in Afghanistan in 1839, rumors
spread of a Muslim conspiracy based in India's Deccan region.
Colonial officials were convinced that itinerant preachers of jihad
- whom they labelled 'Wahhabis' - were collaborating with Russian
and Persian armies, and inspiring Muslim princes to revolt.
Officials detained and interrogated Muslim travelers, conducted
weapons inspections at princely forts, surveyed mosques, and
ultimately annexed territories of the accused. Using untapped
archival materials, Chandra Mallampalli describes how local
intrigues, often having little to do with 'religion', manufactured
belief in a global conspiracy against British rule. By skillfully
narrating stories of the alleged conspirators, he shows how fears
of the dreaded 'Wahhabi' sometimes prompted colonial authorities to
act upon thin evidence, while also inspiring Muslim plots against
princes not of their liking. At stake were not only questions about
Muslim loyalty, but also the very ideals of a liberal empire.
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