05123cam a2200745Ii 4500 ocn814705724 OCoLC 20200709055620.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 121026t20122012mau ob 001 0 eng d YDXCP eng pn rda YDXCP N$T OCLCQ E7B EMU OL$ JSTOR DKDLA NLGGC OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA CN8ML EBLCP DEBSZ OCLCQ OCLCA OCLCQ AZK LOA TVG AGLDB MOR UKIIJ PIFAG MERUC OCLCQ IOG ZCU DEGRU U3W OCLCF OCLCO STF WRM VTS NRAMU OCLCA ICG VT2 OCLCQ OCLCO WYU WAU 825732373 835789742 851247295 961604570 962593352 9780674067707 (electronic book) 0674067703 (electronic book) 9780674066397 (cloth) 0674066391 (cloth) 494492 (N$T) (OCoLC)814705724 (OCoLC)825732373 (OCoLC)835789742 (OCoLC)851247295 (OCoLC)961604570 (OCoLC)962593352 22573/ctt2f1d29 JSTOR a-ii--- KNS46.A35 P87 2012 LAW 001000 bisacsh REL037000 bisacsh HIS017000 bisacsh HIS037060 bisacsh 344.54/7096 23 MAIN Purohit, Teena, author. The Aga Khan case : religion and identity in colonial India / Teena Purohit. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012. ©2012 1 online resource (x, 183 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Prehistories of the Ismaili sect in nineteenth-century Bombay -- Sectarian showdown in the Aga Khan case of 1866 -- Reading Satpanth against the judicial archive -- Comparative formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan "sect" -- Sect and secularism in the early nationalist period. "An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court's ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge's decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion"--Provided by publisher. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 050 Aga Khan I, 1804-1881 Trials, litigation, etc. Aga Khan I, 1804-1881. fast (OCoLC)fst01923314 Ismailites Legal status, laws, etc. India History 19th century. Khojahs Legal status, laws, etc. India History 19th century. Religion and state India History 19th century. Tithes (Islamic law) India History 19th century. LAW Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice. bisacsh RELIGION Islam General. bisacsh Religion and state. fast (OCoLC)fst01093863 Tithes (Islamic law) fast (OCoLC)fst01151623 India. fast (OCoLC)fst01210276 1800-1899 fast History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Trials, litigation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01423712 Electronic books. Print version: Purohit, Teena. Aga Khan case. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012 9780674066397 (DLC) 2012007917 (OCoLC)778245039 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=494492 De Gruyter DEGR 9780674067707 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3301153 ebrary EBRY ebr10614394 EBSCOhost EBSC 494492 YBP Library Services YANK 9663440 92 N$T 51806 51806