Description
Following these developments from the beginning of the Raj through independence, Elizabeth Lhost rejects narratives of stagnation and decline to show how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal change. The rich archive of unpublished fatwa files, qazi notebooks, and legal documents they left behind chronicles their efforts to make Islamic law relevant for everyday life, even beyond colonial courtrooms and the confines of family law. Lhost shows how ordinary Muslims shaped colonial legal life and how their diversity and difference have contributed to contemporary debates about religion, law, pluralism, and democracy in South Asia and beyond.
About the Author
Elizabeth Lhost is lecturer in history and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469668123
Author Elizabeth Lhost
Format Paperback
Page Count 376
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 247g