Resisting regimes : myth, memory and the shaping of a Muslim identity

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Resisting regimes : myth, memory and the shaping of a Muslim identity

Shail Mayaram

Oxford University Press, 1997

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Summary: Historical account of the Meo Muslims chiefly located in the former princely states of Alwar and Bharatpur

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This study examines the contests over, and reshaping of, the identity of the Meos, a group located between Hinduism and Islam. The theoretical issues discussed relate to kingship, religion, nationalism, violence, ethnicity and identity, and proselytization and resistance.

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