South Asian Muslims held distinct views from their British rulers

Evidence

Third, we note that a focus on British perspectives in India should not suggest that South Asians did not have their own views, that they did not differ from Britons’, or that they simply subsumed their understandings to British ones. Earlier scholarship has demonstrated the significant and changing dynamics of interaction and representation between many of the myriad groups of the subcontinent both preceeding and during British rule. However, our endeavor to track the shared heritage and divergent expressions of Anglo- American Islamophobia mandates the exclusion of these voices. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 23

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mughal religious tolerance tempered some British Islamophobia before 1857 — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 57

Related

• Studying Anglo-American Islamophobia requires deliberately excluding South Asian perspectives (similarity 0.86)
• Britons defined their own superiority as the middle ground between Hindu and Muslim extremes (similarity 0.85)
• Diminished Muslim threat let British observers admire Mughal culture despite Orientalist negative stereotypes. (similarity 0.84)
• Mughal religious tolerance tempered some British Islamophobia before 1857 (similarity 0.84)
• Asian and American Islamophobia diverged according to each society’s domestic situation (similarity 0.82)
• British India feared pan-Islamism later than America did (similarity 0.82)
• Kazi frames Asian Islamophobia only through American policy, not on its own terms (similarity 0.81)
• British anti-Muslim prejudice outlasted the 1857 rebellion by decades. (similarity 0.81)
• American Islamophobia borrowed British stereotypes because Americans had little contact with Muslims (similarity 0.80)
• Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. (similarity 0.80)
• Americans derived much of their Islamophobia from British colonial sources. (similarity 0.79)
• Britons in India refashioned inherited Islamophobia to serve colonial governance needs (similarity 0.79)
• British Islamophobia was weak pre-1857 partly because Muslims posed no threat. (similarity 0.79)
• Britons in India, unlike Americans, faced an active (if exaggerated) Muslim threat to their political order, yet both shared convictions regarding Islam’s coercive proselytizing and violent spread. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Mughal religious tolerance tempered some British Islamophobia before 1857 #expands (0.75) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 57