Religious interactions in Mughal India
By: edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Munis D. Faruqui
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780198081678
Subjects: Religion; Ethnic relations; Hinduism; Interfaith relations; Relations; Islam
Description: Popular knowledge generally operates with the notion that "Hindu" and "Muslim" as polarized religious identities have existed from the moment Muslims entered northern India in the eleventh century. The essays for this volume interrogate this idea. They focus on Islamicate traditions in their interaction with coterminous Hindu ones in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. They examine a wide tableau of sites and modes of interchanges, allowing the texts to speak in their own languages, whether these are assimilative, antagonistic, or indifferent. Given the charged nature of Hindi-Muslim relations today, a fresh study of these relations in their regional and temporal specificity along with a renewed attempt to closely interrogate the language in which we talk about them is absolutely vital in order to contest powerful and contemporary "clash of civilizations" narratives in South Asia as well as elsewhere. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Contributed articles based on the conference "Hunood wa Musalman: Religion in Mughal India" held in 2008.

Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of South Asia Studies, Department of South and Southeast Studies (SSEAS), and SSEAS Magistretti Chair.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Vasudha Dalmia and Munis D. Faruqui -- I:; title: Of intersections --; title: Ideology and state-building: Humāyūn's search for legitimacy in a Hindu-Muslim environment  -- Eva Orthmann; title: Dara Shukoh, Vedenta, and imperial succession  -- Munis D. Faruqui; title: The prince and the Muvaḥḥid: Dārā Shikoh and Mughal engagements with Vedānta  -- Supriya Gandhi; title: Learned Brahmins and the Mughal court: the Jyotiṣas  -- Christopher Minkowski; title: Drowned in the sea of mercy: the textual identification of Hindu Persian poets from Shi'i Lucknow in the Taz̲kira of Bhagwān Dās "Hindi"  -- Stefano Pellò; title: Faith and allegiance in the Mughal era: perspectives from Rajasthan  -- Ramya Sreenivasan -- II:; title: Of proximity and distance --; title: Inflected Kathas: Sufis and Krishna Bhaktas in Awadh  -- Francesca Orsini; title: Sant and Sufi in Sundardās's poetry  -- Monika Horstmann; title: Hagiography and the "other" in the Vallabha Sampradaya  -- Vasudha Dalmia; title: Diatribes against Śāktas in Banarasi bazaars and rural Rajasthan: Kabīr and his Rāmānandī Hagiographers  -- Heidi Pauwels; title: Muslims as devotees and outsiders: attitudes toward Muslims in the Vārtā literature of the Vallabha Sampradāya  -- Shandip Saha; title: Mahamat Prannath and the Pranami movement: Hinduism and Islam in a seventeenth-century mercantile sect -- Brandan Larocque.