Contested identities and the Muslim Qaum in northern India, c.1860-1900

Using primarily published sources in Urdu from the second-half of the nineteenthcentury, my thesis presents evidence with regard to north Indian Muslims, whichquestions the idea of a homogenous, centralising, entity, at times called the Muslimcommunity, qaum, ummah or nation. Using a large number of...

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Main Author: Zaidi, S. Akbar
Published: University of Cambridge 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504100