Muslim Festivals in India and Other Essays

Muslim Festivals in India and Other Essays
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Download or read book Muslim Festivals in India and Other Essays written by Joseph-Héliodore Garcin de Tassy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three essays in this volume give a graphic account of Indian Muslim festivals in the nineteeth century, as observed by the participants themselves. The majority of these participants were Hindus who added their own practices to these supposedly Islamic events. The French Indologist de Tassy adds his own pungent comments to those of his sources, thus providing in this volume a fascinating interplay of cultural perspectives. This is the first translation into English of this classic nineteenth-century French work.


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