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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226372747.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
REVIEWS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Maps and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Storyline
Prominent Figures in the Cult of Ghazi Miyan
Preface
1. Introduction: Sufi and the Ghazi
Part One: A Life
2. The Hagiography
3. An Urdu Mirror of Masud
4. The Author as Hero
Part Two: Lore
5. Tales and the Text
6. Reproductive Anxiety
7. Zohra Bibi
8. Birth–Marriage–Martyrdom
9. Ghazi Miyan and Cowherds
10. Grey Mare, Lilli
11. Cooking for a Turkic Brother
12. Idols
Part Three: Shrine
13. Altars
14. Dafalis and Servitors
15. The Bahraich Shrine
16. Sites and Cenotaphs
Part Four: Counter-Histories
17. Investing the Ghazi
18. Demotic Warfare
19. Downplaying the Iconoclast?
Part Five: A Long Afterlife
20. Everyday Memories
21. Epilogue
Appendix 1. The Ballad of Basauri Dafali, Recorded Near Rudauli, May 1994
Appendix 2. The Ballad of Set Mahet, Recorded, c. 1900 by W. Hoey
Appendix 3. A Poetical Description of the Ghazi Miyan Fair at Bahraich, c. 1800 by Cazim Ali Jawan
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index