The Aga Khan case :

Purohit, Teena.

The Aga Khan case : religion and identity in colonial India / Teena Purohit. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. - x, 183 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prehistories of the Ismaili sect in nineteenth-century Bombay -- Sectarian showdown in the Aga Khan case of 1866 -- Reading Satpanth against the judicial archive -- Comparative formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan sect -- Sect and secularism in the early nationalist period.

9780674066397 (hbk.)

2012007917


Aga Khan I,--Trials, litigation, etc.


Ismailites--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--India--19th century.
Khojas--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--India--19th century.
Religion and state--History--India--19th century.
Tithes (Islamic law)--History--India--19th century.

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