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| Article Name : | | | Religious Practices And Traditions Of Early Turkish Rule In Northern India | | Author Name : | | | Anu Bala | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-3077 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | During the 20th century studies on religious practices and traditions of the early Turkish rule have made sufficient headway, in spite of the limited scope and availability of contemporary source materials. The study of medieval Islam as a religion with a total impact on Hindustan was not wholly neglected by 20th century historians even when, as during the first forty years of this century, narrative political history dominated modern historiography on medieval India. In the early 20th century, Thomas Arnold, Murray Titus, Mohammad Wahid Mirza and nearer independence and partition, Mohammad Habib, A.B.M. Habibullah and K. A. Nizami have directed their attention to the religious aspects of the Muslim 'presence' in India. But it would not be unfair to say that their contributions, however important individually, did not control the main thrust and the direction of historical works on medieval India before 1947. Their works did not have any appreciable effect upon the forms, technique and scope of such standard general histories as the Oxford History of India (London, 1919); The Cambridge History of India, Volume-III, (Cambridge, 1928) and Ishwari Prasad's History of Medieval India (1925). During the 1920's and the 1930's, although useful work in Indo-Muslim society was still being done, it could not be said that the earlier enthusiasm for the religion and culture of the early Turkish rule, was, among British historians, being maintained. It is difficult to point to one work by a British historian on either, the religion, the social or the cultural history of Indian Islam during this period. For the greater part of these decades, the picture among Indian historians who had come under European influence was little different. Mohammad Habib researches of Sufis and K.M. Ashraf, Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1935) initiated the studies of Islamic religion and society. During the 1940's and the 1950's, there grew interest in the activities of the Sufi mystics evinced by Mohammad Habib and later on by K.A. Nizami. A movement towards the study of the religious and cultural history of the peoples of the sub-continent during the early Muslim period was perceptible both in periodical literature appearing in English and also occasionally in monographs. Once again, it cannot be said that British historians have taken any prominent place in this shift of attention. Not much work had been done on the religious aspects of the early Turkish rule history. | | Keywords : | | |
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