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The writer William Knighton (c.1824-1900) spent much of his career in Sri Lanka and India. Published in 1855, this is an account of the court of the notorious Indian King Nussir-u-deen (c.1803-37), written from the viewpoint and using the testimony of an anonymous British member of the King's retinue. Richly descriptive, it is an intimate portrait of life in the service of a hedonistic sovereign so hated and paranoid that he feared his own family would try to poison him. He is characterised as a cruel and frivolous man who only trusted his sycophantic barber. As well as describing the lavish royal lifestyle, the narrator documents the King's thirst for hunting, for exotic-animal fights and for abusing and humiliating members of the royal family. This is a lurid and engrossing tale of a monarch in decline and the corruption and favouritism that led to his eventual assassination.

Oudh (India) --- India --- History --- Social Science

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In this pioneering study of the Twelver Shi'i branch of Islam prevalent in Iraq and Iran, J. R. I. Cole traces the influence of Shi'i rule on the development of religious communalism and conflict in the North Indian State of Awadh (Oudh). He also examines the relationship of the Shi'i clergy to the state and the clerical reaction to British imperialism and capitalism. Based on research in rare manuscripts and in archives, the book reveals that the Shi'i clergy advocated policies that caused resentment among Sunnis and Hindus, thereby promoting religious communalism and setting the stage for modern communal conflict. The Shi'i learned men took government posts in support of Awadh's Shi'i nawabs and shahs Awadh state support, in turn, helped transform Shi'ism from a persecuted "sect" to a dominant, if still minority, religious establishment. Sociologically, the book draws attention to the specific role of the state in defining "sect" and "church." It also argues the importance of class divisions within the Shi'i community, showing that the dominant clerical ideology was often not accepted by the laboring strata. Cole's study supports the view that Muslim communalism in Northern India had genuine historical roots and was not simply an elite strategy of modern Muslim politicians. Contrary to the arguments of some writers and to the image projected by Iran's current ayatullahs, he claims that most Shi'i clergy did not play a role of opposition to the state.

Shīʻah --- Islam and state --- Shåi°ah --- Islam --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- History. --- History --- Oudh (India) --- Ethnic relations. --- Religion. --- Mosque and state --- State and Islam --- Imamites --- Shia --- Shiism --- Twelvers (Islam) --- Awadh (India) --- Oude (india) --- History of Asia --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Iraq --- Iran --- State, The --- Ummah (Islam) --- Islamic sects --- Alids --- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India) --- Avadha (India) --- Oude (India) --- Shīʻah

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William Hoey (1849-1919) was a magistrate in Lucknow, India when this book was published by the American Missionary Press in 1880. At the time, Lucknow was the seventh largest city in the British Empire, and it was the capital of the province that had most recently come under British rule. Hoey's monograph captures the details of trade in the city and surrounding regions at this time of change. Part 1 outlines the prominent features of trade in the area and includes tables of imports and exports. Part 2 focuses on Lucknow specifically, and contains the author's discussion of the impact of British rule on the city. The third part is a detailed A-Z of every trade, including information on production, prices and profit, and the work concludes with an extensive glossary of Indian terms. The level of detail in this work makes it an invaluable historical document.

Uttar Pradesh (India) --- Lucknow (India) --- India, North --- Commerce --- History --- India, Northern --- North India --- Northern India --- Uttar Bhārat --- Uttara Bhārata --- Lucknow --- Laknāʼū (India) --- Lakkhnau (India) --- Lakhanaū (India) --- Лакхнау (India) --- U.P. --- UP --- State of Uttar Pradesh (India) --- Uttara Pradeśa (India) --- Уттар-Прадеш (India) --- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India)

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In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words-and women's expressive genres more generally-criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India.The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.

Folk literature, Indic --- Women --- Sex role --- Folklore --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- India --- Gender role --- Indic folk literature --- Rajasthan (India) --- Uttar Pradesh (India) --- Social life and customs --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Indic literature --- Social life and customs. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- U.P. --- UP --- State of Uttar Pradesh (India) --- Uttara Pradeśa (India) --- Уттар-Прадеш (India) --- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (India) --- Folk literature, Indic - India - Uttar Pradesh --- Folk literature, Indic - India - Rajasthan --- Women - India - Folklore --- Sex role - India --- Rajasthan (India) - Social life and customs --- Uttar Pradesh (India) - Social life and customs