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A moral reckoning [electronic resource] : Muslim intellectuals in nineteenth-century Delhi / Mushirul Hasan.
By: Hasan, Mushirul
.Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: 1 online resource (xv, 313 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199081691.Subject(s): Intellectuals -- India -- Delhi -- History -- 19th century | Muslims -- India -- Delhi -- History -- 19th century | Delhi (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century | HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780195691979DDC classification: 954.560088297 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
| Item type | Current library | Copy number | Status | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Originally published: 2005.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.