Strategies of Authority in Muslim South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Francis Robinson

doi:10.1017/S0026749X12000248

Strategies of Authority in Muslim South Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Francis Robinson

Department of History

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Abstract

Examines the strategies of ulama, hakims (Muslim doctors), literati, and the wielders of political power in fashioning and re-fashioning their authority both under colonial and post-colonial rule. in general we see Mughal/persianate sources of authority replaced by those derived from Arab and Western sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-21
Number of pages	21
Journal	Modern Asian Studies
Volume	47
Issue number	1
Early online date	2 Nov 2012
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X12000248
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013

Keywords

Authority, Islam, Modern South Asia

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