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Bombay Islam : the religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 /

"As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century Bombay attracted migrants from across India and beyond. Nile Green's Bombay Islam traces the ties between industrialization, imperialism, and the production of religion to show how Muslim migration from the oceanic and continental hinterlands of...

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Main Author: Green, Nile
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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