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TEENA PUROHIT T H E A G A K HA N C A S E Religion and Identity in Colonial India The Aga Khan Case THE AGA KHAN CASE Religion and Identity in Colonial India TEENA PUROHIT HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Purohit, Teena. The Aga Khan case : religion and identity in colonial India / Teena Purohit. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-06639-7 (alk. paper) 1. Aga Khan I, 1804–1881—Trials, litigation, etc. 2. Ismailites— Legal status, laws, etc.—India—History—19th century. 3. Khojas— Legal status, laws, etc.—India—History—19th century. 4. Religion and state—India—History—19th century. 5. Tithes (Islamic law)— India—History—19th century. I. Title. KNS46.A33P87 2012 344.54'7096—dc23 2012007917 For Sanjay and Sara Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xi Introduction 1 1 Prehistories of the Isma‘ili Sect in Nineteenth-Century Bombay 18 2 Sectarian Showdown in the Aga Khan Case of 1866 35 3 Reading Satpanth against the Judicial Archive 57 4 Comparative Formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan “Sect” 87 5 Sect and Secularism in the Early Nationalist Period 111 Conclusion 133 Notes 141 Index 175 Acknowledgments The research and writing for this book was made possible through grants from the Institute of Historical Research in London, the Department of Religion at Columbia University, and the Boston University Center for the Humanities. This project began as a dissertation under the supervision of Jack Hawley. I would like to thank him and the rest of the commit- tee—Rachel McDermott, Tazim Kassam, Fran Pritchett, and especially Partha Chatterjee—for their generous and critical feedback that helped sow the seeds of this book. I would have had no idea where to begin and how to proceed at the research stage if it were not for Zawahir and Martin Moir, who warmly opened their home and took much time out to guide me through the labyrinth of sources at the India Offi ce Library. I am also grateful to others in London for their assistance with this project: Faisal Devji, Peter Marshall, Samira Sheikh, and Amrita Shodhan. This book could not have been written without the camaraderie, mentorship, and assistance of Sunil Agnani, Siraj Ahmed, Shahid Amin, Nushin Arb- abzadah, Carla Bellamy, Varuni Bhatia, Allison Busch, Elizabeth Cas- telli, Yogesh Chandrani, Valentine Daniel, Kavita Datla, Hent de Vries, Nick Dirks, Richard Eaton, Sheri Englund, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Nile Green, Julia Harrington, Hanna Kim, Suvir Kaul, Ania Loomba, Mah- mood Mamdani, Karuna Mantena, Rama Mantena, Saloni Mathur, Mahnaz Moazami, Anne Murphy, Jon Natchez, Nauman Naqvi, Chris- tian Novetzke, Andrea Pinkney, Bhavani Raman, Sanjay Reddy, Suchitra
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