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Resisting Regimes:

Myth, Memory, and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity
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Oxford University Press, Jan 20, 1997 - Social Science - 298 pages
This study examines the contests over, and reshaping of, the identity of the Meos, a group located between Hinduism and Islam. The theoretical issues discussed relate to kingship, religion, nationalism, violence, ethnicity and identity, and proselytization and resistance.

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The Meos of Mewat
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Rites
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The Making of
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About the author (1997)

Shail Mayaram, Associate Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur.

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