Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia - Zaat/caste Among Muslims

Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia analyses the colonial and post-colonial documentation and caste classification among Muslims in India, and will be of interest to scholars of religion, Islam, history, politics and sociology of India.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Religion, Caste, and Discourses: An Interface; Chapter 3. Colonialism, Enumeration, and Caste Among Muslims; Chapter 4. Muslim Castes in Census of Provincial and Presidency Areas; Chapter 5. Census and Caste Among Muslims in South India; Chapter 6. Colonial Narrative on Muslim Thuggs and Criminal Tribes; Chapter 7. Caste in Ethnographic Studies, Gazetteers, and Administrative Records; Chapter 8. Caste, Reservation, and the Identity Politics: After Independence; Chapter 9. Conclusion; Index

About the author

Muzaffar Assadi is Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Arts, Department of Studies in Political Science, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India. He is the author of a number of books and reports and has written extensively on communalism, agrarian movement and farmer's suicide, the politics of the state, and identity politics in India.

Product details

• Authors: Muzaffar Assadi, Muzaffar (University of Mysore Assadi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032606668
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260666-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Islam, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, India, General & world history, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Asian History, General and world history, Religion and Politics, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies