Using Primarily Urdu Sources from the nineteenth century and by de-emphasising the colonial archive and its particular narrative, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, in colonial north India after 1857. The book contrasts how the colonial British 'made Muslims' very differently compared to how Muslims envisaged themselves, re-examining the 'dominant narrative of consolidation of communal solidarity among Muslims in colonial India'.