Ashraf into middle classes: Muslims in nineteenth-century Delhi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART I: THE BRITISH AND THE MUGHALS 1. Establishing British Rule 2. Religion and Piety 3. Families and Communities of Common Descent 4. The Passing Away of the White Mughals and the Rise of a New Public Sphere 5. Noble Women, Courtesans, and Women's Moral Reform 6. The City and Its Spatial Order 7. Conflict between the Religious Communities PART II: 1857 AND ITS AFTERMATH 8. The 1857 Rebellion PART III: THE HEYDAY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 9. Nobility and Middle Classes 10. Religious Identities between Secularization and Re-Islamization 11. Education: The Colonial System and Cultural Nationalism 12. Civil Society and the Colonial Municipal Administration 13. The New Woman 14. The Politicization of Communities: Communalism and Nationalism CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR