Ashraf Into Middle Classes: Muslims in Nineteenth-Century Delhi

by Margrit Pernau

Nineteenth-century Delhi was marked by a curious mixture of political upheaval and cultural resurgence. Drawing on a wide variety of little-known sources in Urdu and Persian, apart from the more conventional British records, this book provides a revelatory and vivid narrative of Muslims in the period covering the British conquest in 1803 to the end of the Khilafat movement in 1922. Moving away from the tendency of studies on Muslims to focus on religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198092288
• ISBN13: 9780198092285
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"