Conquest and Community
The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
- Contents
- Review Quotes

List of Abbreviations
Storyline
Prominent Figures in the Cult of Ghazi Miyan
Preface
1 Introduction: Sufi and the Ghazi
Part One A LIFE
2 The Hagiography
3 An Urdu Mirror of Masud
4 The Author as Hero
Part Two LORE
5 Tales and the Text
6 Reproductive Anxiety
7 Zohra Bibi
8 Birth–Marriage–Martyrdom
9 Ghazi Miyan and Cowherds
10 Grey Mare, Lilli
11 Cooking for a Turkic Brother
12 Idols
Part Three SHRINE
13 Altars
14 Dafalis and Servitors
15 The Bahraich Shrine
16 Sites and Cenotaphs
Part Four COUNTER-HISTORIES
17 Investing the Ghazi
18 Demotic Warfare
19 Downplaying the Iconoclast?
Part Five A LONG AFTERLIFE
20 Everyday Memories
21 Epilogue
Appendix 1 The Ballad of Basaurhi Dafali, Recorded Near Rudauli, May 1994
Appendix 2 The Ballad of Set Mahet, Recorded, c. 1900 by W. Hoey
Appendix 3 A Poetical Description of the Ghazi Miyan Fair at Bahraich, c. 1800 by Cazim Ali Jawan
Endnotes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: General Asian Studies | South Asia
History: Asian History | General History
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