Muslim Communities of South Asia : Culture Society and Power

T N Madan

ISBN 10: 8173040907 / ISBN 13: 9788173040900

Published by Manohar, 2001

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Contents: Preface. Introduction. Pakistan: 1. The two Biraderis: kinship in rural West Punjab/Hamza Alavi. 2. Islam and the district Paradigm: emergent trends in contemporary Muslim society/Akbar S. Ahmed. 3. The ranking of brotherhoods: the dialectics of Muslim caste among overseas Pakistanis/Pnina Werbner. Bangladesh: 1. Mullahs, migrants, miracles: travel and transformation in Sylhet/Katy Gardner. 2. Community structure and social rank in two villages in Bangladesh/Peter J. Bertocci. Nepal: 1. Muslims in the Hindu Kingdom of Nepal/Marc Gaborieau. 2. The social construction of cultural identities in rural Kashmir/T.N. Madan. 2. Levels and boundaries in native models: social groupings among the Bakkarwal of the Western Himalayas/Aparna Rao. 3. Tamil Muslims and non-Brahmin atheists, 1925-1940/J.B.P. More. 4. Piety and politics in Indian Islam/ Gopal Krishna. 5. Pir, Shaikh and prophet: the personalization of religious authority in Ahmad Riza Khan's life/Usha Sanyal. 6. Kinship and the political order: the Afghan Sherwani chiefs of Malerkotla (1454-1957)/ Rita Brara. 7. Circumcision, body and community/Deepak Mehta. 8. Caste in Islam and the problem of deviant systems: a critique of recent theory/ Charles Lindholm. Sri Lanka: 1. Arabs, Moors and Muslims: Sri Lankan Muslim ethnicity in regional perspective/Dennis McGilvray. 2. Sufi, reformist and national models of identity: the history of a Muslim village festival in Sri Lanka/Victor C. De Munck. Index. "There are more Muslims in South Asia today, numbering almost 400 million, than in any other 600 pp. Seller Inventory # 38726

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Title: Muslim Communities of South Asia : Culture ...

Publisher: Manohar

Publication Date: 2001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

The present volume of 16 essays, drawn from the files of 'Contributions to Indian Sociology (1972-99)', is offered to interested readers in the hope that it will stimulate research and prove useful in the classroom. Contributed mainly by sociologists and social anthropologists, and also by historians, the volume is a noteworthy interdisciplinary effort. It also represents international collaboration in scholarship, with nine contributors from South Asia and seven others from England, France and the USA. This is the 3rd Enlarged Edition.

About the Author:

T.N. Madan is Honorary Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.