The changing world of a Bombay Muslim community, 1870-1945 / Salima Tyabji.
Language: English Original language: Urdu Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191965876Subject(s): Tyabji family | Muslims -- India -- Mumbai -- History | Mumbai (India) -- Social life and customs | Society | Society & culture: generalAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780192869746DDC classification: 305.6970954792 LOC classification: DS432.M84Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy 'community' in Bombay in the 19th century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense of unity or cohesion to people so widely diverse in terms of language, customs, and also of forms and practices of belief. By the middle of the 19th century, a class of wealthy ship owners, ship-builders, and merchants, belonging to the varied communities that constituted the city, of which Muslims formed an important part, had emerged. This class was outward-looking, 'modern', and generally reformist in outlook. The questions that were being raised in the social turmoil of the period amongst Hindus were over issues of female education, the age of marriage, widow remarriage, and female seclusion.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Specialized.
Some chapters translated from the Urdu.
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy 'community' in Bombay in the 19th century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense of unity or cohesion to people so widely diverse in terms of language, customs, and also of forms and practices of belief. By the middle of the 19th century, a class of wealthy ship owners, ship-builders, and merchants, belonging to the varied communities that constituted the city, of which Muslims formed an important part, had emerged. This class was outward-looking, 'modern', and generally reformist in outlook. The questions that were being raised in the social turmoil of the period amongst Hindus were over issues of female education, the age of marriage, widow remarriage, and female seclusion.
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