A moral reckoning : Muslim intellectuals in nineteenth-century Delhi /
This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of 19th-century Delhi - Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, their responses to the onse...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of 19th-century Delhi - Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husain Hali. It studies their attitudes and behaviour towards one another, their responses to the onset of colonial rule, their experience of living through the 1857 Rebellion, their reappraisal of their culture and identity, and above all, the impact of their thinking and activism on their contemporaries. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2005. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199081691 0199081697 |