The Silk Letters Movement
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In 1916 the authorities in India uncovered what they believed was a plot to overthrow British rule in the subcontinent. It involved an Islamic teacher from the city of Deoband in northern India. Messages written on sheets of silk had been intercepted by the British. Owen Bennett Jones presents reports from the colonial archives.
(Photo: The Darul Uloom Deoband, the seminary at the heart of the Silk Letter Movement)
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