The Malabar Muslims: A Different Perspective

229 Pages·2012·2.332 MB·English

by  LRS Lakshmi

The Malabar Muslims
A Different Perspective
LRSLakshmi
Delhi (cid:2) Bengaluru (cid:2) Mumbai (cid:2) Kolkata (cid:2) Chennai (cid:2) Hyderabad (cid:2) Pune
ii Introduction
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Introduction iii
To
My Parents
iv Introduction
Introduction v
Contents
List of Maps vi
List of Tables vii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations x
Note on Transliteration xi
Maps xii
Introduction xv
1. The Hadhrami Roots 1
2. Family and Inheritance Laws: Continuities and Changes 33
3. Religious Spaces and Disputes 62
4. Reformist Trends 87
5. Education and Social Mobility 107
6. Mappilla Leadership and Political Mobilization 132
7. Mappillas in the Twenty-first Century: 156
A Standing Applause
Conclusion 171
Appendix 184
Glossary 186
Bibliography 188
Index 199
List of Maps
Map 1: Administrative divisions in Malabar under the British in xii
late nineteenth century
Map 2: Muslim settlements in Malabar in 1870 xiii
Map 3: The areas of influence of Muslim organizations in Malabar xiv
List of Tables
Table 1.1: Genealogical table of the Jifris of Malabar 23
Table 5.1: Number of literate Mappillas per 1000 in 1901 116
and 1911
Table 5.2: Literacy per 10,000 Mappillas in 1931 121
Table 5.3: Progress of education among Mappillas between 126
1891–92 and 1939–40
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Introduction ix
Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my special thanks to several people who went
through the manuscript and provided useful criticisms and suggestions.
My gratitude to my teachers, Sudha Jha, Narayani Gupta and Mukul
Kesavan who trained me to be an unbiased historian. The untiring guidance
of Avril Powell and stimulating discussions with K.N. Panikkar, Michael
Anderson, Conrad Wood, Stephen Dale, Susan Bayly, Christopher Fuller,
Peter Hardy, Joan Mencher, Gervace Clarence-Smith, Ulrike Frietag, Omar
Khalidi, Francis Robinson and James Chiriyankandath enabled me to fill
the major gaps in my work. I wish to thank all the staff members of the
Kozhikode State Archives, the Tamilnadu State Archives, the National
Archives of India, the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, the
India Office Library, London and the National Library of Scotland,
Edinburgh. I would also like to say a sincere thank you to K.K.N. Kurup,
Hafiz Mohammad and S.M. Mohammad Koya of Kozhikode University
and C.K. Kareem of the Kerala History Association. I am grateful to my
parents for their encouragement, especially my mother, for her help with
the translation of difficult Malayalam documents. Finally, I would like to
thank Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. for getting the book
published.