Moj explores the history of Deobandi Islam, a South Asian Sunni sect that started in 1866 when a madrassah movement was launched in norther India. It has survived and spread mainly through its madrass
This innovative book analyses the growth of Deobandi Islam, a religious sect whose followers include extremist groups, through the frame of a counterculture in conflict with mainstream Muslim society.
Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata’s Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalizatio
