The changing world of a Bombay Muslim community, 1870-1945 / Salima Tyabji.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyabji, Salima, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Urdu

Subjects (All):

Muslims--India--Mumbai--History.

Muslims.

Mumbai (India)--Social life and customs.

Mumbai (India).

Tyabji family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

Some chapters translated from the Urdu.

Summary:

Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy 'community' in Bombay in the 19th century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense of unity or cohesion to people so widely diverse in terms of language, customs, and also of forms and practices of belief. By the middle of the 19th century, a class of wealthy ship owners, ship-builders, and merchants, belonging to the varied communities that constituted the city, of which Muslims formed an important part, had emerged. This class was outward-looking, 'modern', and generally reformist in outlook. The questions that were being raised in the social turmoil of the period amongst Hindus were over issues of female education, the age of marriage, widow remarriage, and female seclusion.

Contents:

Cover

The Changing World of a Bombay Muslim Community, 1870-1945

Copyright

Contents

List of Characters in Alphabetical Order

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1. The Tyabjee Family and Its Akhbar

I The Genre of Family House Journals

II The Language of the Journals

III The Need to Keep Journals

IV Varying Approaches of the Writers

2. Currents of Change 1876-​1939, as revealed in the Akhbar

I The Creation of Family Identity and the Need to Record

II Differences in Attitude to the Akhbar

III Music: Its Place in the Family Circle

IV Modernity: Education, Exercise, and Fun

V Social Reform

VI European Stimulus to Social Reform

VII Changing Views on Purdah

VIII Relations with the British

IX The Urdu of Bombay

X Family Values

XI Political Views

3. Passages from the Akhbar: Translated from the Urdu

I 1877 The Turkish Crisis

II 1877 Amiruddin Tyabji's Opening Entry in His Wynad Book

III 1891 Rahat Badruddin Tyabji's Account of Family Picnics

IV 1894 Amina Tyabji's Account of Her Travels in Europe

V 1898 Mohsin, Commanded to Write the 'Official Account' of the Eclipse by Younger Brother Editor Faiz

VI 1904 Purdah

VII 1905 The Death of Rahat Badruddin Tyabji

VIII 1907 A Visit to the Jog Falls

IX The Final Entries in the Badruddin Akhbar

4. A Modern Woman: The Journal of Safia Jabir Ali, 1926-​45-​Translated from the Urdu

5. Letters from Europe: 1870

I Extracts from Letters relating to Religion, Marriage, and Happiness

II Comments on Relationships within the Family

Conclusion

Appendix: A Twentieth-​Century View of Europe

I Aden to England

II London and the South

III The Midlands, Wales, Scotland

IV Europe: The Rhine, Paris

V Bibliotheque Nationale

VI Zurich, Vienna.

VII Berlin, Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Italy

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 30, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Tyabji, Nasir The Changing World of a Bombay Muslim Community, 1870 - 1945

ISBN:

0-19-196587-1

0-19-269681-5

0-19-269680-7