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008			100628s2011 enkab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2010027650
020			_a9781107020764 (hardbound)
035			_a(OCoLC)ocn646630310
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050	0	0	_aHB2100.B66 _bG74 2011
082	0	0	_a330.954792 GRE/Bom _222
100	1		_aGreen, Nile.
245	1	0	_aBombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 _cNile Green.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011
300			_axvi, 327 p. : _bill., maps ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism, and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration from the oceanic and continental hinterlands of Bombay in this period fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour, and globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people mill hands and merchants in shaping the demand that drove the market. By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and poems in Persian, Urdu, and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment"--
650		0	_aInternal migrants _zIndia _zMumbai _xHistory.
650		0	_aMuslims _zIndia _zMumbai _xHistory.
650		0	_aIranians _zIndia _zMumbai _xHistory.
650		0	_aEconomics _xReligious aspects _xIslam.
651		0	_aMumbai (India) _xCommerce _xHistory.
906			_a7 _bcbc _corignew _d1 _eecip _f20 _gy-gencatlg
955			_bxj12 2010-06-28 _cxj12 2010-06-28 ONIX to Soc Sci Section _axe10 2011-05-02 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver.
999			_c113408 _d113408