Muslims and Missionaries in Pre-Mutiny India

by Avril Ann Powell

Overview

Focuses on the period leading up to the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700702107
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/17/1995
Series:	SOAS London Studies on South Asia , #7
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN DEBATE: THE MEDIEVAL LEGACY OF MUNAZARA; Chapter 2 THE INDIAN SETTING: MUSLIM HEARTLANDS IN THE MUGHAL TWILIGHT; Chapter 3 EVANGELICALISM AND INDIA: MISSIONARY EXPANSION IN NORTHERN INDIA; Chapter 4 CONTACT, CONVERSION AND CONTROVERSY: THE FIRST MUSLIM RESPONSES; Chapter 5 NEW FOCUS ON ISLAM: THE REVEREND CARL PFANDER AND THE MIZAN AL-HAQQ (BALANCE OF TRUTH); Chapter 6 MUSLIM RETALIATION: AGRA AND LUCKNOW IN THE 1840S; Chapter 7 NEW MOOD IN DELHI: THE EMERGENCE OF MAULANA RAHMAT ALLAH KAIRANAWI; Chapter 8 OPEN CONFLICT IN AGRA: THE ‘GREAT DEBATE' OF 1854; Chapter 9 CONCLUSIONS: INDIAN MUNAZARA IN THE LONGER-TERM PERSPECTIVE GLOSSARY; Bibliography Index;