Muzaffar Assadi

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia

Zaat/Caste Among Muslims

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia analyses the colonial and post-colonial documentation and caste classification among Muslims in India, and will be of interest to scholars of religion, Islam, history, politics and sociology of India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781032606637
• ISBN-10: 1032606630
• Artikelnr.: 68474320

Autorenporträt

Muzaffar Assadi is Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Arts, Department of Studies in Political Science, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India. He is the author of a number of books and reports and has written extensively on communalism, agrarian movement and farmer's suicide, the politics of the state, and identity politics in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Religion, Caste, and Discourses: An Interface
Chapter 3. Colonialism, Enumeration, and Caste Among Muslims
Chapter 4. Muslim Castes in Census of Provincial and Presidency Areas
Chapter 5. Census and Caste Among Muslims in South India
Chapter 6. Colonial Narrative on Muslim Thuggs and Criminal Tribes
Chapter 7. Caste in Ethnographic Studies, Gazetteers, and Administrative Records
Chapter 8. Caste, Reservation, and the Identity Politics: After Independence
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Index