: The religious economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915 Green, Nile. creator Nile Green. text New York : Cambridge University Press , 2013 monographic eng

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xvi;327p. : 24cm. 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 fueled demand for a wide range of religious suppliers, as Christian missionaries competed with Muslim religious entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market. Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel and vernacular printing, Bombay's Islamic productions were exported as far as South Africa and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour and globalization, the book examines the role of ordinary people - mill hands and merchants - in shaping the demand that drove the market. By drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal works, and poems in Persian, Urdu and Arabic, Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity that saw people from across the Indian Ocean drawn into Bombay's industrial economy of enchantment. / Nile Green. Internal migrants Religious aspects Economics 330.954 GRE 9781107627796 : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi 260724 20260724120206.0