book recommendations

[naav]

Assalaamu'alaikum. :)

1. Could anyone please recommend any intelligent and scholarly books on India and Pakistan in the lead up to partition?

2. Also, on the role of the muslim scholars in the above event?

Thank you, wassalaamu'alaikum. :)

[Goldi]

http://www.himalmag.com/november2001/essay.htm

this should get you started

also, look at:

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Barbara Daly Metcalf

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195660498/ref=sr_11_1/104-9612696-8374324?ie=UTF8

The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (Hardcover)
by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691096805/sr=1-1/qid=1153506690/ref=sr_1_1/104-9612696-8374324?ie=UTF8&s=books

Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870-1920 by Usha Sanyal

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195648625/sr=1-3/qid=1153506802/ref=sr_1_3/104-9612696-8374324?ie=UTF8&s=books


also, looking up 'deoband' in ure campus library journals will get you to a collection of journal articles on ure subject.

good luck.

[naav]

Assalaamu'alaikum.

Many, many thanks; very kind of you - I really appreciate it. :)

1. Can anyone recommend any books of a 'general' nature about the break-up of India - the events leading up to it and what happened during it, the deaths, etc.

Many thanks, wassalaamu'alaikum. :)