Ebook: Indian Muslim minorities and the 1857 Rebellion: religion, rebels, and jihad

"While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders."--;Introduction -- Religion, Rebels, and Jihad -- Theoretical Framing -- A Note on Language -- Chapter Outline -- The Company, Religion, and Islam -- Religion before Rebellion -- "Watershed Moment": the Great Rebellion -- Greased Cartridges and Chapatis: the Anxiety of Religious Conspiracy -- Muslim Memories of the Great Rebellion -- Conclusions -- Suspect Subjects: Hunter and the Making of a Muslim Minority -- Bound to Rebel: Making Muslims a Minority -- Indian Musalmans and Hunter: Author of Empire -- Laws, Literalism, and All Muslims: Hunter's Claims -- Favorable Ruling, Unfavorable Interpretation -- Conclusions -- "God save me from my friends!": Syed Ahmad Khan's Review on Dr Hunter -- Sir Syed on the Great Rebellion -- An Academic Rejoinder to Indian Musalmans -- A Legalism of His Own: Sir Syed on Hunter's Use of Islamic Law -- On Muslim Loyalty -- On Literalism, Wahhabism, and Jihad -- Conclusions -- Rebellion as Jihad, Jihad as Religion -- Defining Jihad -- Making Muslims Jihadis -- Jihad in Imperial India and the Great Rebellion -- Conclusions.