Author: Shamim Aleem
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Category : Hyderabad (India : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Author: John Slight
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674915828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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The British Empire at its height governed more than half the world’s Muslims. It was a political imperative for the Empire to present itself to Muslims as a friend and protector, to take seriously what one scholar called its role as “the greatest Mohamedan power in the world.” Few tasks were more important than engagement with the pilgrimage to Mecca. Every year, tens of thousands of Muslims set out for Mecca from imperial territories throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea. Men and women representing all economic classes and scores of ethnic and linguistic groups made extraordinary journeys across waterways, deserts, and savannahs, creating huge challenges for officials charged with the administration of these pilgrims. They had to balance the religious obligation to travel against the desire to control the pilgrims’ movements, and they became responsible for the care of those who ran out of money. John Slight traces the Empire’s complex interactions with the Hajj from the 1860s, when an outbreak of cholera led Britain to engage reluctantly in medical regulation of pilgrims, to the Suez Crisis of 1956. The story draws on a varied cast of characters—Richard Burton, Thomas Cook, the Begums of Bhopal, Lawrence of Arabia, and frontline imperial officials, many of them Muslim—and gives voice throughout to the pilgrims themselves. The British Empire and the Hajj is a crucial resource for understanding how this episode in imperial history was experienced by rulers and ruled alike.

Author: Shamim Aleem
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1434323579
Category : Muslims
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Kamlesh Prasad Singh
Publisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: P. V. Kate
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788170990178
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Zubaida Yazdani
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher:
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Category : South Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1408

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Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Author: Dr. Santosh Jaganath
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312496479
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Author: Walter Spink
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004321926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453

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Walter Spink’s intense concern with the development of the Ajanta caves and their architectural, sculptural and painted features finds its most insistent reflection in his present richly illustrated study. In part 1, Spink explains the many connections between the Bagh caves and its “sister site”, Ajanta. He particularly emphasizes the leading role that Bagh plays in establishing the “short chronology” and in the crucial matter of Buddhist shrine development from the aniconic to iconic forms of worship. In part 2, along with his colleague Professor Naomichi Yaguchi, who also provided the photographs and the newly informative plans, the authors show how, over the course of a mere decade, better and better ways were discovered to fit the doors in the cells where the monks lived. Such an analysis reveals the vigor of the conceptual and technical changes that characterize Ajanta’s evolution from its start in the early 460s to its traumatic collapse in about 470. Moving from Ajanta’s beginning to its ending, the evolution of door fittings parallels the precise and dramatic development of Indian history in the remarkable course of the emperor Harisena’s reign.

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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1064

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