Conquest and community : the afterlife of warrior saint Ghazi Miyan / Shahid Amin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amin, Shahid, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sayyid Sālār Masʻūd G̲h̲āzī, 1014-1032--Cult.

Sayyid Sālār Masʻūd G̲h̲āzī.

Sayyid Sālār Masʻūd G̲h̲āzī, 1014-1032.

Muslim saints--India--Uttar Pradesh--Biography.

Muslim saints.

Cults.

Uttar Pradesh (India)--Folklore.

Uttar Pradesh (India).

India--Uttar Pradesh.

Genre:

Biographies.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

xix, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about tire bloody history of the conquest without falling into communitarian traps? Conquest and Community is Shahid Amin's answer. Covering more than eight hundred years of history, the book centers on the enduringly popular saint Ghazi Miyan, a youthful soldier of Islam whose shrines are found all over India. Amin details the warrior saint's legendary exploits, then tracks the many ways he has been commemorated in the centuries since. The intriguing stories, ballads, and proverbs that grew up around Ghazi Miyan were, Amin shows, a way of domesticating the conquest-recognizing past conflicts and differences but nevertheless bringing diverse groups together into a community of devotees. What seems at first glance to be the story of one mythical figure becomes an allegory for the history of Hindu-Muslim relations over an astonishingly long period of time, and a timely contribution to current political and historical debates. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Sufi and the Ghazi

A life. The hagiography

An Urdu mirror of Masud

The author as hero

Lore. Tales and the text

Reproductive anxiety

Zohra Bibi

Birth

marriage

martyrdom

Ghazi Miyan and cowherds

Grey mare, Lilli

Cooking for a Turkic brother

Idols

Shrine. Altars

Dafalis and servitors

The Bahraich shrine

Sites and cenotaphs

Counter-histories. Investing the Ghazi

Demotic warfare

Downplaying the iconoclast?

A long afterlife

Everyday memories

Epilogue.

Notes:

"First published by Orient Blackswan Private Limited 2015"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226372570

022637257X

9780226372600

022637260X

OCLC:

940520504