Americans and those Britons serving in India often differed in their perception of Muslims. Few Americans benefited from actual contact with Muslims that many Britons experienced occasionally, if not daily. However, after 1857 Britons in India eyed Muslims more warily as a source for potential rebellion. In both the American and British cases, European imperialism made more known about Islam than ever before although such information was often inflected by administrative anxieties and Christian concerns.

Builds on: "Historical Islamophobia dominated Western publications from 1700 to 1950."

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 118