Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity

by Shail Mayaram and Mayaram Shail

This study examines the contests over, and reshaping of, the identity of the Meos, a group located between Hinduism and Islam. The theoretical issues discussed relate to kingship, religion, nationalism, violence, ethnicity and identity, and proselytization and resistance.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195639553
• ISBN13: 9780195639551
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"