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Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023 [©2023]

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978-0-19-269681-6

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LOC-SH: Islam

This book traces the evolving identity of a Bombay family and its changing social and political views in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using three main sources: their family journals, an individual memoir/journal, and letters written home from Europe.

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Cover -- The Changing World of a Bombay Muslim Community, 1870-1945 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Characters in Alphabetical Order -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Tyabjee Family and Its Akhbar -- I The Genre of Family House Journals -- II The Language of the Journals -- III The Need to Keep Journals -- IV Varying Approaches of the Writers -- 2. Currents of Change 1876-​1939, as revealed in the Akhbar -- I The Creation of Family Identity and the Need to Record -- II Differences in Attitude to the Akhbar -- III Music: Its Place in the Family Circle -- IV Modernity: Education, Exercise, and Fun -- V Social Reform -- VI European Stimulus to Social Reform -- VII Changing Views on Purdah -- VIII Relations with the British -- IX The Urdu of Bombay -- X Family Values -- XI Political Views -- 3. Passages from the Akhbar: Translated from the Urdu -- I 1877 The Turkish Crisis -- II 1877 Amiruddin Tyabji's Opening Entry in His Wynad Book -- III 1891 Rahat Badruddin Tyabji's Account of Family Picnics -- IV 1894 Amina Tyabji's Account of Her Travels in Europe -- V 1898 Mohsin, Commanded to Write the 'Official Account' of the Eclipse by Younger Brother Editor Faiz -- VI 1904 Purdah -- VII 1905 The Death of Rahat Badruddin Tyabji -- VIII 1907 A Visit to the Jog Falls -- IX The Final Entries in the Badruddin Akhbar -- 4. A Modern Woman: The Journal of Safia Jabir Ali, 1926-​45-​Translated from the Urdu -- 5. Letters from Europe: 1870 -- I Extracts from Letters relating to Religion, Marriage, and Happiness -- II Comments on Relationships within the Family -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Twentieth-​Century View of Europe -- I Aden to England -- II London and the South -- III The Midlands, Wales, Scotland -- IV Europe: The Rhine, Paris -- V Bibliotheque Nationale -- VI Zurich, Vienna.