Butchers between archives: community history in early twentieth-century Delhi.
This article analyses the Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá, a 1924 Urdu-language history aimed at Muslim butchers in Delhi, alongside archival records produced for the colonial state and municipality in the same period. The Risālah-yi Banī Quṣṣá asserted regional and local Islamic pasts for butchers, in an eff...
| Publicado en: | South Asian History & Culture Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 357 - 371 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct 2021
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