שאלה | Question: How did the image of the Prophet Muhammad in India change, by the end of the 19th century?

Question: How did the image of the Prophet Muhammad in India change, by the end of the 19th century?

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		A) From someone who enjoyed smoking hashish for pleasure, to someone who never consumed mind-altering substances
		B) From someone who was proud of being poor (“poverty is my honor and my pride”), to someone whose image was that of a merchant and an integral part of the middle class
		C) From someone who liked drinking wine, to someone who opposed drinking alcohol
		D) From someone from the upper class, to someone from the lower class

Explanation: In the lectures, the late-19th-century recasting of Muhammad in India is described as a shift toward a bourgeois respectability frame: from an ideal of honored poverty/ascetic virtue to an image of a merchant aligned with middle-class values. (Lecture/Reading: Chattopadhyaya, “Primer for Rebellion”.)