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020			_a9781316649817
082			_a297.82095409034 _bJON
100			_aJones, Justin
245			_aShi'a Islam in colonial India : religion, community and sectarianism
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2017 _aCambridge :
300			_axxv, 276 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b23.99 _cGBP _d105.40
490			_aCambridge studies in Indian history and society ; _v18
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aInterest in Shi'ism Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward Independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, polemical literature, and clerical biography, it assesses seminal developments including the growth of Shi'a religious activism, madrasa education, missionary activity, ritual innovation, and the politicization of the Shi'a community. As a consequence of these significant religious and social transformations, a Shi'a sectarian identity developed that existed in separation from rather than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism was initiated, the consequences of which are very much alive in South Asia today. The book makes a significant contribution to the global history of Shi'ism, and to understandings of inner-Islamic conflicts in the colonial and post-colonial worlds.
650			_aShiah, India, History
650			_aShiah, Customs and practices
650			_aIslam and politics
650			_aIslamic sects
650			_aReligious life and customs
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