About this title: In this significant work, Mushirul Hasan draws on the family history of the Kidwais of Bara Banki district of the United Provinces to provide an engaging and colourful account of the qasbati life in colonial Awadh. Professor Hasan invokes a fragmanet of Bara Banki's past and present, highlighting the guiding principles of the qasbah people, whether expressed in rituals, in religion, fairs and festivals around shrines, in political activity, in inter-community relations, or in the routines of daily life. He profiles the life and times of many individuals hailing from the qasbati milieu who ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195666083ISBN:0195666089
Description: New in New jacket. 14 Cms x 22 Cms. Few biographical narratives in India use the history of families to map the social and historical context of their times. In this pioneering work, Mushirul Hasan draws on the family history of the Kidwais of Bara Banki district of the United Provinces to provide an engaging and colourful account of Awadh society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moving away from an urban-oriented, Lucknow-centric look at Awadh, he studies the unique milieu of ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: OUP India
Date published: 22/04/2004
ISBN-13:9780195666083ISBN:0195666089
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Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780195666083ISBN:0195666089
Description: New. pp. 335. As New. Contents 1. Introduction. 2. Negotiating identities the local and the national. 3. A family saga. 4. In Allah's own country. 5. Adab and political morality the story of three lives. 6. Political activism in Lucknow and its neighbourhood. 7. In the shadow of partition. 8. Gardish e dauran vicissitudes of fortune. Appendix. Bibliography. Glossary. Index of place names. General Index. Few biographical narratives in India use the history of families to map the social and ... read more
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