ISBN:
9781501760587
,
9781501760617
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 196 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.6/970954
Keywords:
Muslims / India / Social conditions
;
Muslims / India / Delhi / History
;
Muslims / India / Delhi / Case studies
;
Muslims / Cultural assimilation / India
;
Social integration / Religious aspects / Islam
Abstract:
A place for Muslims -- Gender and precarity -- Perfecting the self -- Living with difference -- Life after death
Abstract:
"This is an ethnography of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi that examines how religion provides an arena to make place for the community, and to challenge exclusionary understandings of nation and belonging in contemporary India"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
