Sacred Symbol and Sacred Space in Rural India: Community Mobilization in the “Anti-Cow Killing” Riot of 1893
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- measures of-belief
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Comparative Studies in Society and History
- Vol. 22 (4) , 576-596
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500009555
Abstract
The course of events leading up to 1947, when independence and partition came to the Indian subcontinent, has colored retrospectiveassessments of Hindu-Muslim relations in many perceptible ways.Polarities in religion and culture receive inordinate attention as theharbingers of the great divide yet to come, as do political developments asturning points in the eventual separate destinies of many Hindus and Muslims in South Asia.Keywords
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