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Islam and the Army in Colonial India - Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire (Paperback)
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Islam and the Army in Colonial India - Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire (Paperback)
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.
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