| Introduction | 11 |
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| Studies on Ethnic Muslims | 12 |
| Studies on Muslim Gujjars | 15 |
| Theoretical Considerations | 21 |
| Chapter One: The Deoband School | 26 |
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| Introduction | 26 |
| The Deoband School | 27 |
| Dar al-‘ulum, Deoband | 28 |
| Tablighi Jama‘at | 35 |
| Deoband among Ahl-e Hadith and Barelwis | 40 |
| The Deoband School in the Gujjar area | 45 |
| Conclusions | 50 |
| Chapter Two: The Van Gujjars | 51 |
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| Introduction | 51 |
| Origins | 51 |
| Demographic Profile | 59 |
| Gujjars as part of a wider ethnic group | 59 |
| Religion-Islam | 62 |
| The Gujjars in Uttarakhand | 66 |
| The Context of Uttarakhand | 66 |
| The Gujjar in Uttarakhand | 69 |
| Contact with Rulers | 73 |
| Rajaji National Park | 79 |
| Conservation issues | 79 |
| The National Park | 80 |
| The Gujjars in RNP | 83 |
| Conclusion | 87 |
| Chapter three: The Gujjar ‘Indigeneity’ | 89 |
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| Introduction | 89 |
| Discourse on Adivasis | 90 |
| NGO’s Vision for Gujjars | 94 |
| RLEK and the ‘tribal’ identity of the Gujjars | 95 |
| Religious Practice and Alleged ‘Fundamentalism’ | 108 |
| Community Forest Management | 111 |
| Other Actors | 118 |
| Conclusion | 133 |
| Chapter Four: Deobandi Islamization | 134 |
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| Introduction | 134 |
| Contact with the Deoband School | 135 |
| Partnership | 139 |
| Deobandi Description of the Gujjars | 143 |
| Strategies for Outreach | 148 |
| Itinerant preaching | 149 |
| Teaching-Learning in Madrasas | 155 |
| Full-time resident teachers | 164 |
| Learning on the job | 170 |
| Madrasa education | 175 |
| Conclusion | 179 |
| Chapter Five: The Gujjar Response | 181 |
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| Introduction | 181 |
| Response to Deoband | 181 |
| Knowledge and Practice of Islam | 182 |
| Practice | 183 |
| Beliefs | 188 |
| Popular Islam | 192 |
| Traditional Culture | 200 |
| Temporal Genealogy: Rajput Gotra | 209 |
| Strategic Contact | 217 |
| Comparison with the Meos | 221 |
| Conclusion | 227 |
| Concluding Discussion | 228 |
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| Conclusions | 228 |
| Implications | 231 |
| Islam and Integration | 231 |
| Gujjarism and Integration | 234 |
| Spheres and Contact Zones | 237 |
| Islamization as Socialization | 238 |
| Diversity and Hybridity | 239 |
| Social Re-structuring | 242 |
| Bibliography | 246 |
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| Primary Sources | 246 |
| Secondary Sources | 248 |
| Appendices | 286 |
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| Appendix I | 286 |
| Appendix II | 301 |
| Appendix III | 314 |
| Appendix IV | 321 |
| Appendix V: Maps | 333 |
| Subject Index | 337 |
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| People/Organisations Index | 341 |
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| Place Index | 343 |