Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter one. Prehistories of the Isma‘ili Sect in Nineteenth-Century Bombay 18
7. Chapter two. Sectarian Showdown in the Aga Khan Case of 1866 35
8. Chapter three. Reading Satpanth against the Judicial Archive 57
9. Chapter four. Comparative Formations of the Hindu Swami Narayan “Sect” 87
10. Chapter five. Sect and Secularism in the Early Nationalist Period 111
11. Conclusion 133
12. Notes 141
13. Index 175