Islam and the army in colonial India : sepoy religion in the service of empire / Nile Green.

Call Number	954.0088297
Author	Green, Nile, author.
Title	Islam and the army in colonial India : sepoy religion in the service of empire / Nile Green. Islam & the Army in Colonial India
Physical Description	1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 16
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction ---- 1. Traditions of supernatural warfare --- 2. The padre and his miraculous services --- 3. Allah's naked rebels ---- Conclusions.
Summary	Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
Subject	Muslims India Hyderabad History 19th century. Muslims India Hyderabad History 20th century. Soldiers India Hyderabad History 19th century. Soldiers India Hyderabad History 20th century. Great Britain. Army Colonial forces India History. India. Army History 19th century. India. Army History 20th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576867

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Summary	Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	Introduction ---- 1. Traditions of supernatural warfare --- 2. The padre and his miraculous services --- 3. Allah's naked rebels ---- Conclusions.
Subject	Muslims India Hyderabad History 19th century. Muslims India Hyderabad History 20th century. Soldiers India Hyderabad History 19th century. Soldiers India Hyderabad History 20th century. Great Britain. Army Colonial forces India History. India. Army History 19th century. India. Army History 20th century. India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511576867