The Muslims of British India by P. Hardy

Barbra Daly, Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband.

Regarding any sense of Muslim political unity and nationhood as an outcome of the period of British rule, Dr Hardy shows the limitations and frailty of that unity and nationhood by 1947. Nacthribi Pakistan (2) (Lahore: Muslim Academy, 1972), p.688. He shows how the interplay of memories of past Muslim. He stresses the force of religion in the growth of Muslim political separatism, showing how the 'modernists' kept the conversation among Muslims within Islamic postulates and underlining the role of the traditional scholars in heightening popular religious feeling. Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British Indias Muslims with a deeper perspective. Dr Hardy argues (contrary to the usual view) that Muslims were able to take political initiatives because, in the region of modern Uttar Pradesh, British rule before 1857 and even the events of the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857-8 had not been economically disastrous for most of them. Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge South Asian Studies 13Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge. He shows how the interplay of memories of past Muslim supremacy, Islamic religious aspirations and modern Muslim social and economic anxieties with the political needs of the alien ruling power gradually fostered a separate Muslim politics. All these pan-Islamic or fundamentalist movements sought to purge Indian Muslims of their pre-Islamic Hindu practices that had survived despite centuries of forced conversion. The Muslims of British India by Hardy 5.0 (1) Paperback Buy New 56.99 Buy Used 41.31 Reserve Now, Pay in Store Overview Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British India's Muslims with a deeper perspective. Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British India's Muslims with a deeper perspective. Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British Indias Muslims with a deeper perspective. The movement was put down by the British by sending native infantry (Hardy, ibid, pp.55-59).

The Muslims of British India by P. Hardy