
Conquest and Community
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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.
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- Intro
- 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
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