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The Fate of the Khoja Community in British Courts of India

This animated video examines the factors that led to the transformation of Khoja community from a ‘regional caste identity’ to a ‘global religious identity’. By exploring three cases adjudicated by British judges between 1828-1866, this brief study analyses the role of various geo-political factors and internal and external challenges that contributed to subsume regional religious traditions into larger organised faith and ideological driven religions. It also highlights the inefficiency of the colonial powers in understanding how the caste system operated, how communities identified themselves and what ‘religion’ or ‘faith’ meant for its adherents. References: Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity (London: Penguin Books, 2005), Article nos. 4 (pp. 73-86) & 16 (pp. 334-356). Carissa Hickling, Disinheriting Daughters: Applying Hindu Laws of Inheritance to the Khoja Muslim Community in Western India, 1847-1937, MA Thesis, unpublished. Online access: https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handl... Teena Purohit, The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012). Faisal Devji, ‘Conversion to Islam: The Khojas’ (unpublished paper, University of Chicago, 1987), 49 as cited in Asani, Ali 2011. “From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim”, in Farhad Daftary (Ed.) A Modern History of the Ismailis (London: I.B. Tauris, 2011). E. I. Howard, The Shia school of Islam and its branches, especially that of the Imamee-Ismailies: a speech delivered in the Bombay High Court in June, 1866 (Bombay: Oriental Press, 1866). Erskine Perry, Cases Illustrative of Oriental Life, and the Application of English Law to India, Decided in H. M. Supreme Court at Bombay (London: S. Sweet, 1853).   Michel Boivin, The Isma‘ili – Isna ‘Ashari Divide Among the Khojas: Exploring Forgotten Judicial Data from Karachi, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , JULY 2014, THIRD SERIES, Vol. 24, No. 3, Special Issue: Isna 'Ashari and Isma'ili Shi'ism: from South Asia to the Indian Ocean (JULY 2014), pp. 381-396.