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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- The Changing World of a Bombay Muslim Community, 1870-1945 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Characters in Alphabetical Order -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Tyabjee Family and Its Akhbar -- I The Genre of Family House Journals -- II The Language of the Journals -- III The Need to Keep Journals -- IV Varying Approaches of the Writers -- 2. Currents of Change 1876-1939, as revealed in the Akhbar -- I The Creation of Family Identity and the Need to Record -- II Differences in Attitude to the Akhbar -- III Music: Its Place in the Family Circle -- IV Modernity: Education, Exercise, and Fun -- V Social Reform -- VI European Stimulus to Social Reform -- VII Changing Views on Purdah -- VIII Relations with the British -- IX The Urdu of Bombay -- X Family Values -- XI Political Views -- 3. Passages from the Akhbar: Translated from the Urdu -- I 1877 The Turkish Crisis -- II 1877 Amiruddin Tyabji's Opening Entry in His Wynad Book -- III 1891 Rahat Badruddin Tyabji's Account of Family Picnics -- IV 1894 Amina Tyabji's Account of Her Travels in Europe -- V 1898 Mohsin, Commanded to Write the 'Official Account' of the Eclipse by Younger Brother Editor Faiz -- VI 1904 Purdah -- VII 1905 The Death of Rahat Badruddin Tyabji -- VIII 1907 A Visit to the Jog Falls -- IX The Final Entries in the Badruddin Akhbar -- 4. A Modern Woman: The Journal of Safia Jabir Ali, 1926-45-Translated from the Urdu -- 5. Letters from Europe: 1870 -- I Extracts from Letters relating to Religion, Marriage, and Happiness -- II Comments on Relationships within the Family -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Twentieth-Century View of Europe -- I Aden to England -- II London and the South -- III The Midlands, Wales, Scotland -- IV Europe: The Rhine, Paris -- V Bibliotheque Nationale -- VI Zurich, Vienna |
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VII Berlin, Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Italy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author |
| Summary |
Muslims formed a disparate and unwieldy 'community' in Bombay in the 19th century. The Islam that was professedly held in common by various groups could barely provide a sense of unity or cohesion to people so widely diverse in terms of language, customs, and also of forms and practices of belief. By the middle of the 19th century, a class of wealthy ship owners, ship-builders, and merchants, belonging to the varied communities that constituted the city, of which Muslims formed an important part, had emerged. This class was outward-looking, 'modern', and generally reformist in outlook. The questions that were being raised in the social turmoil of the period amongst Hindus were over issues of female education, the age of marriage, widow remarriage, and female seclusion |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2023) |
| Subject |
Muslims -- India -- Mumbai -- History -- 19th century
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Muslims
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Society & culture: general.
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Society.
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India -- Mumbai
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192696809 |
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0192696807 |
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9780191965876 |
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0191965871 |
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9780192696816 |
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0192696815 |
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