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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101009253700

ISBN-139781009253703

eBay Product ID (ePID)26062521608

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Book TitleHajj Across Empires : Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739-1857

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicComparative Religion, Asia / India & South Asia

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, History

AuthorRishad Choudhury

Book SeriesAsian Connections Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

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LCCN2023-014014

Reviews'Choudhury offers a fascinating account of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Muslims who undertook the hajj, alongside other political endeavors. He describes a region whose interconnectedness is being altered by the collapse of Islamic empires. He depicts an Islam being transformed by an emerging colonial modernity. This is a carefully conceived, wonderfully erudite, and thoroughly researched book.' Munis D. Faruqui, University of California, Berkeley

Dewey Edition23/eng/20230414

Dewey Decimal297.3/509538

Table Of ContentIntroduction. Hajj in the Crisis of Empire; Part I. Departures: experiences and exchanges in the indian ocean: 1. Pilgrim passages; 2. The Hajj bazaar economy; Part II crossings: ideologies and institutions across empires; 3. The Ulama on Hajj; 4. Hindi Sufis and the Hajj; Part III Returns: states between home and the Haramain: 5. The Company Raj and the Hajjis; 6. Routes of the Muslim state; 7. Faqirs and fanatics, or, reconfiguring pilgrimage and political culture ; Conclusion: the Hajj and the ends of the Mughal world; Index.

SynopsisRishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it, creating new ideas of religion and rule. Examining links between the Indian Subcontinent and the Ottoman Middle East through multilingual sources - from first-hand accounts to administrative archives of hajj - Choudhury uncovers a striking array of pilgrims who leveraged their experiences and exchanges abroad to address the decline and decentralization of an Islamic old regime at home. Hajjis crucially mediated the birth of modern Muslim political traditions around South Asia. Hajj across Empires argues they did so by channeling inter-imperial crosscurrents to successive surges of imperial revolution and regional regime change.gime change.gime change.gime change., A highly original new history of Muslim political culture across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857. Examining South Asian connections with the Middle East, Rishad Choudhury draws on research in multilingual sources and archives to reveal the imperial entanglements of the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca., Rishad Choudhury presents a new history of imperial connections across the Indian Ocean from 1739 to 1857, a period that witnessed the decline and collapse of Mughal rule and the consolidation of British colonialism in South Asia. In this highly original and comprehensive study, he reveals how the hajj pilgrimage significantly transformed Muslim political culture and colonial attitudes towards it, creating new ideas of religion and rule. Examining links between the Indian Subcontinent and the Ottoman Middle East through multilingual sources - from first-hand accounts to administrative archives of hajj - Choudhury uncovers a striking array of pilgrims who leveraged their experiences and exchanges abroad to address the decline and decentralization of an Islamic old regime at home. Hajjis crucially mediated the birth of modern Muslim political traditions around South Asia. Hajj across Empires argues they did so by channeling inter-imperial crosscurrents to successive surges of imperial revolution and regional regime change.

LC Classification NumberBP187.3.C47 2023