Islamism, modernity and the transformation of contemporary South Indian Muslim society.

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This project examines contemporary identity transformations among South Indian Muslim community, Calicut Koyyas. Central to recent shifts in practice and redefinitions of self and community are local Islamist movements, which are engaged in long term projects of transformation of religious practices and subjectivites. Local Islamism is enhanced by modernity, the rise of a new middle class and intensifying links to global reformism - factors identifiable from the 1920s but intensified post 1970s, with the revitalisation of economic life and transformation of Kerala society generally which result from increased migration and business within the Persion Gulf region.