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Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India

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Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India book

Edited ByVinod K. Jairath
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 31 December 2012
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge India
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203085240
Pages 286
eBook ISBN 9780203085240
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Jairath, V.K. (Ed.). (2011). Frontiers of Embedded Muslim Communities in India (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203085240

ABSTRACT

This volume approaches the study of Muslim societies through an evolutionary lens, challenging Islamic traditions, identities, communities, beliefs, practices and ideologies as static, frozen or unchangeable. It assumes that there is neither a monolithic, essential or authentic Islam, nor a homogeneous Muslim community. Similarly, there are no fixed binary oppositions such as between the ulama and sufi saints or textual and lived Islam. The overarching perspective — that there is no fixity in the meanings of Islamic symbols and that the language of Islam can be used by individuals, organizations, movements and political parties variously in religious and non-religious contexts — underlies the ethnographically rich essays that comprise this volume.

Divided in three parts, the volume cumulatively presents an initial framework for the study of Muslim communities in India embedded in different regional and local contexts. The first part focuses on ethnographies of three Muslim communities (Kuchchhi Jatt, Irani Shia and Sidis) and their relationships with others, with shifting borders and frontiers; part two examines the issue of ‘caste’ of certain Muslim communities; and the third part, containing chapters on Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Mumbai and Gujarat, looks at the varied responses of Muslims as Indian citizens in regional contexts at different historical moments.

Although the volume focuses on Muslim communities in India, it is also meant to bridge an important gap in, and contribute to, the ‘sociology of India’ which has been organized and taught primarily as a sociology of Hindu society.

The book will appeal to those in sociology, history, political science, education, modern South Asian Studies, and to the general reader interested in India & South Asia.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |26 pages

Introduction: Towards a Framework

ByVinod K. Jairath

part |2 pages

Part I Self Identity and Others

chapter 1|20 pages

Border Transgressions and the Frontiers of Faith in Kachchh, Gujarat

ByFarhana Ibrahim

chapter 2|16 pages

We are Different from Shias Here; We are Different from Iranis There: Irani Shias in Hyderabad

ByVinod K. Jairath, Huma R. Kidwai

chapter 3|26 pages

Sidis of Gujarat — A Building Community: Their Role in Indian History into Contemporary Times

ByBeheroze Shroff

part |2 pages

Part II Caste — Reproduction, Stratification and Mobility

chapter 4|20 pages

Consanguineous Marriage and Kinship System: Impact of Socio-Cultural Dynamics among the Muslims of Delhi, India

ByRosina Nasir, A. K. Kalla

chapter 5|23 pages

Social Stratifi cation among the Muslims of Kerala

ByP. R. G. Mathur

chapter 6|22 pages

Ethnic Identity and Islamisation among the Borewale Muslims of Andhra Pradesh

ByS. A. A. Saheb

chapter 7|16 pages

Taleem, Tanzeem aur Tijaarat: The Changing Role of the AIJQ

ByZarin Ahmad

chapter 8|23 pages

Multiple Identities and Educational Choices: Refl ections on Ansari Students in a School of Banaras

ByNirmali Goswami

part |2 pages

Part III Muslim Citizens

chapter 9|21 pages

Tamil Muslims and the Dravidian Movement: Alliance and Contradictions

ByS. Anwar

chapter 10|22 pages

Muslim Perceptions and Responses in Post–Police Action Contexts in Hyderabad

ByM. A. Moid

chapter 11|21 pages

Naata, Nyaya: Friendship and/or Justice on the Border

ByRowena Robinson
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