Ashraf into middle classes Muslims in nineteenth-century Delhi

This study takes religion not as a given but asks about the universe of alternative identities - gender, territorial, class, descent, and language, which all shape a person's sense of belonging to a specific community. It also considers the development of the middle classes, the ashraf, as they...

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Main Author: Pernau, Margrit
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2013, 2013
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