Justin Jones, "Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism" (Cambridge UP, 2012)

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Justin Jones' book, Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2012) is all about Lucknow, and colonial India, and Shia Islam - and the links and interlinks between these and the outer world.

Jones' is a fascinating study, that draws upon English, Persian and Urdu sources, official and otherwise, to detail a narrative of Shi'ism in Lucknow after the deposition of its nawabs - who had done more than most to foster a Shi'ite 'culture of governance' - down to today.

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