Shi'a Islam in Colonial India

Interest in Shi''a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi''ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi''a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi''a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi''ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a ...