Religious Interactions in Mughal India

by Vasudha Dalmia

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.

Religious Interactions in Mughal India

Author: Vasudha Dalmia

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780198081678

Page: 424

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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.

Religious Interactions in Modern India

by Martin Fuchs

This volume seeks to look at relationships both withinand between religions.

Religious Interactions in Modern India

Author: Martin Fuchs

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780198081685

Page: 472

View: 987

Religions in South Asia have tended to be studied in blocks, whether in the various monolithic traditions in which they are now regarded, thus Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Christian, or indeed in temporal blocks: ancient, medieval, modern. This volume seeks to look at relationships both within and between religions. It explores the diversity and the multiplicity within each tradition, the historical links between the various traditions which have crisscrossed the monoliths, but also the specific forms of their co-existence with each other, whether in accord or in antagonism. It views the interaction between 'reformed' and non-reformed branches within each of the modern monoliths, as for instance the Arya Samaj and the Sanatani positions within Hinduism. Its second major concern is to look for grounds shared in the process of modernizing. Though there has been much research to date on religious reform movements, there has been less concern with investigating and analyzing developments across the religious boundaries that so sharply divide Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Islam from each other today, and all of these from Christianity. And finally, it also looks at the changing social and political frames of reference shared by both religious and secularist strands of thought. The 'religions' targeted include Hindu discourses (Brahmo, Arya, Sanatana, and various traditional formations, the Aryan/Dravidian divide), Buddhist, Jain, Sikh and Islamic traditions, and Indian Christianity.

The Emperor Who Never Was

by Supriya Gandhi

Dara Shukoh in Mughal India Supriya Gandhi ... Sayyid Akbarali Ibrahimali
Tirmizi, Mughal Documents, 2 vols. ... see Munis Faruqui, “Dara Shukoh, Vedanta
and the Politics of Mughal India,” in Religious Interactions in Mughal India, 16th–
20th ...

The Emperor Who Never Was

Author: Supriya Gandhi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674987292

Page: 304

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Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi’s nuanced biography asks whether the story really would have been different with Dara in power.

The Muhammad Avat ara

by Ayesha A. Irani

Religious Interaction in Mughal India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Dasgupta, Shashibhushan. (1946) 1969. Obscure Religious Cults. 3rd ed.
Reprint, 1995. Calcutta: Firma KLM Private Limited. Davis, Richard. 1997. Lives
of Indian ...

The Muhammad Avat ara

Author: Ayesha A. Irani

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0190089229

Page: 456

View: 601

"The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam reveals the powerful role of vernacular translation in the Islamization of Bengal.Its focus is on examines the magnificent seventeenth-century Nabīvaṃśa of SaiyadSultān, who lived in Arakanese-controlled Chittagong to affirm the power of vernacular translation in the Islamization of Bengal. Drawing upon the Arabo-Persian Tales of the Prophets genre, the Nabīvaṃśa ("The Lineage of the Prophet") retells the life of the Prophet Muhammad for the first time to Bengalis in their mother-tongue. Saiyad Sultān lived in Arakanese-controlled Chittagong,in a period when Gauṛiya Vaiṣṇava missionary activity was at its zenith. This book delineates the challenges faced by the author in articulating the pre-eminence of Islam and its Arabian prophet in a place land where multiple religious affiliations were common, and when GauṛīyaVaiṣṇava missionary activity was at its zenith. Sultān played a pioneering role in setting into motion various lexical, literary, performative, theological, and, ultimately, ideological processes that led to the establishment of a distinctively Bengali Islam in East Bengal, while yet shaping a distinctively Bengali Islam. At the heart of this transformation of a people and their culture lay the persuasiveness of translation to refresh salvation history for a people onoin a new Islamic frontier. The Nabīvaṃśa not only kindled a veritable translation movement of Arabo-Persian Islamic literature into Bangla, but established the grammar of creative translation that was to become canonical for this regional tradition. This text-critical study lays bare the sophisticated strategies of translation used by a prominent early modern Muslim Bengali intellectual to invite others to his faith"--

Climate of Conquest

by Pratyay Nath

War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India Pratyay Nath ... Religious
Interactions in Mughal India, Dalmia and Faruqui, eds., 65–101; Nurul Hasan, '
Aspects of State and Religion in Medieval India,' in Religion, State, and Society in
 ...

Climate of Conquest

Author: Pratyay Nath

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0199098239

Page: 368

View: 415

What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the processes of war-making shared with the society, culture, environment, and politics of early modern South Asia. Climate of Conquest closely studies the dynamics of the military campaigns that helped the Mughals conquer North India and project their power beyond it. The author argues that the diverse natural environment of South Asia deeply shaped Mughal military techniques and the course of imperial expansion. He also sheds light on the world of military logistics, labour, animals, and the organization of war; the process of the formation of imperial frontiers; and the empire’s legitimization of war and conquest. What emerges is a fresh interpretation of Mughal empire-building as a highly adaptive, flexible, and accommodative process.

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions

by Knut A. Jacobsen

Chatterjee, Kumkum (2009) “Cultural Flows and Cosmopolitanism in Mughal
India: The Bishnupur Kingdom.” Indian Economic and Social History Review, 46 (
2): 147–182. Dalmia, Vasudha and Munis Faruqui (2014) Religious Interactions
in ...

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions

Author: Knut A. Jacobsen

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 0429622066

Page: 448

View: 113

The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews, and case studies on religion in historical South Asia, in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, and in the South Asian diaspora. Chapters by an international set of experts analyse formative developments, roots, changes and transformations, religious practices and ideas, identities, relations, territorialisation, and globalisation in historical and contemporary South Asia. The Handbook is divided into two parts which first analyse historical South Asian religions and their developments and second contemporary South Asia religions that are influenced by both religious pluralism and their close connection to nation states and their ideological power. Contributors argue that religion has been used as a tool for creating nations as well as majorities within those nations in South Asia, despite their enormous diversity, in particular religious diversity. The Handbook explores these diversities and tensions, historical developments, and the present situation across religious traditions by utilising an array of approaches and from the point of view of various academic disciplines. Drawing together a remarkable collection of leading and emerging scholars, this handbook is an invaluable research tool and will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of Asian religion, religion in context, and South Asian religions.

The Occult Nineteenth Century

by Lukas Pokorny

New Delhi: Cosmo Publications (Indian reprint of the original edition, London:
Trübner & Co). Crangle, Edward ... Dara Shukoh, Vedanta, and Imperial
Succession in Mughal India. In Religious Interactions in Mughal India, ed.
Vasudha Dalmia ...

The Occult Nineteenth Century

Author: Lukas Pokorny

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 3030553183

Page: 444

View: 659

The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation of alternative religious currents and practices, appropriating earlier traditions, entangling geographically distinct spiritual discourses, and crafting a repository of mindscapes eminently suitable to be accommodated by later generations of thinkers and practitioners. Penned by specialists in the field, this volume examines important themes and figures pertaining to this occult amalgam and its resonance into the twentieth century and beyond. Global guises of the occult, ranging from the Americas and Europe to India, are variously addressed, with special attention to the crucial role of mesmerism and the origins of modern yoga.

Trade State and Religion in Early Modern India

by Brendan P. LaRocque

I argue thut certain of these religious figures represented the interests of
merchants and artisans , and in this capacity exerted considerable ... Scholars
have long argued that merchants did not acquire protection from the state
because in Mughal India there was no equivalent of the ... A nuinber of Indian
hagiographies go to great lengths to describe a saint ' s interaction with Mughal
emperors at court .

Trade State and Religion in Early Modern India

Author: Brendan P. LaRocque

Publisher:

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Page: 248

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The Princes of the Mughal Empire 1504 1719

by Munis D. Faruqui

This engaging book, which uses a vast archive of European and Persian sources, takes the reader from the founding of the empire under Babur to its decline in the 1700s.

The Princes of the Mughal Empire 1504 1719

Author: Munis D. Faruqui

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1139536753

Page:

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For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcontinent to become one of the largest and most dynamic empires on earth? In this rigorous new interpretation of the period, Munis D. Faruqui explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of the Mughal princes. In a challenge to previous scholarship, the book suggests that far from undermining the foundations of empire, the court intrigues and political backbiting that were features of Mughal political life - and that frequently resulted in rebellions and wars of succession - actually helped spread, deepen and mobilise Mughal power through an empire-wide network of friends and allies. This engaging book, which uses a vast archive of European and Persian sources, takes the reader from the founding of the empire under Babur to its decline in the 1700s.

A History of State and Religion in India

by Ian Copland

Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism.

A History of State and Religion in India

Author: Ian Copland

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1136459499

Page: 352

View: 734

Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions whether the Indian state has generally been a benign, or disruptive, influence on public religious life, and evaluates the claim that the region has spawned a culture of practical toleration. The book is structured around six key arenas of interaction between state and religion: cow worship and sacrifice, control of temples and shrines, religious festivals and processions, proselytising and conversion, communal riots, and religious teaching/doctrine and family law. It offers a challenging argument about the role of the state in religious life in a historical continuum, and identifies points of similarity and contrast between periods and regimes. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on South Asian History and Religion.

Journal of Religious Studies

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... MOVEMENT AND SUBSEQUENT CRYSTALLIZATION OF RELIGIOUS
COMMUNITIES IN MUGHAL INDIA WILLIAM A ... Indo - Muslim interaction that
began as early as the 7th century and reached its cultural apogee in the era of
Mughal ...

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Asian Studies Newsletter

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... Research in an Elecies ( Part 1 ) Feminist Literary Criticism Century Mughal
India tronic Age : Teaching the Resources ... 47 Dynamics of Religious
Interaction in South # 110 NGOs : New Ways of Doing Politics in the Asian Art
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Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History

by Richard M. Eaton

"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world ...

Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History

Author: Richard M. Eaton

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1107034280

Page: 377

View: 251

"The essays focus on 'frontiers' in multiple contexts, all relating to John F. Richards's work: frontiers and state building, frontiers and environmental change, cultural frontiers, frontiers and trade and drugs, and frontiers and world history"--Provided by publisher.

Survey of Indian Historiography Mediaeval Period

by Jagadish Narayan Sarkar

Political Culture and Jacques Martin Barzun Life during the Mughal Age ;
Srivastava ( 1907 ) showed the importance of cultural ... 1871 , and ( iii )
Religious Aspects Revenue Resources of the Mughal Empire in India from A.D.
1593 to 1707 , 1871 ) there is a long gap ... of Islam on Indian Culture the latest
book on economic history of Mughal ( 1946 ) attempts to study the interactions
between India is Dr.

Survey of Indian Historiography Mediaeval Period

Author: Jagadish Narayan Sarkar

Publisher:

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Page: 81

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The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies

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Books from Orient Longman Village Republics : Economic conditions , for
collective action in South India By Robert Wade In some ... P. J. Marshall
Marshall begins his analysis with the reign of the last effective Mughal ruler of
eastern India and then goes on to explore the ... Laying particular stress on social
, economic and religious interaction between the Portuguese and the Indians ,
the author argues ...

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Power Administration and Finance in Mughal India

by John F. Richards

Beginning as early as the fourth decade of the seventh Christian century , this
process has not yet ended - as the recent political history of South Asia testifies .
Indeed , the extended interaction between two radically different civilizations ...

Power Administration and Finance in Mughal India

Author: John F. Richards

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN:

Page: 310

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From the mid-16th to the early 18th centuries the Mughal empire was the dominant power in the Indian subcontinent. Contrary to what is sometimes suggested, John Richards argues that this centralised state was dynamic and skillfully run. The studies here consider its links with the wider early modern world, and focus on three related aspects of its history. The first concerns the nature of imperial authority, in terms both of the dynastic ideology created by Akbar and his successors, and the extent to which this authority could be enforced in the countryside. The second aspect is that of fiscal and monetary policy and administration: how did the Mughals collect, track and expend their vast revenues, and what effects did this have? Finally, the author asks why the system could not cope with the changes it had helped engender, and what were the weaknesses and pressures that led to the breakup of the empire in the first decades of the 18th century. De la moitié du 16e siècle au début du 18e, l'empire moghol était le pouvoir dominant du sous-continent indien. Contrairement à ce qui peut parfois Ãatre suggéré, John Richards soutient que cet état centralisé était dynamique et adroitement mené. Les études examinent ses liens avec le reste du monde moderne et se concentrent sur trois aspects de son histoire. Le premier concerne la nature de l'autorité impériale, en termes d'idéologie dynastique, telle qu'elle avait été créée par Akbar et ses successeurs et du point jusqu'auquel cette autorité pouvait Ãatre imposée dans les milieux ruraux. Le second aspect est celui de l'administration et de la politique fiscale et monétaire: comment les Moghols faisaient-ils pour collecter, retrouver et dépenser leurs vastes revenus et quel était l'effet d'une telle politique? Enfin, l'auteur cherche à savoir pourquoi ce système n'arrivait pas à faire face aux changements qu'il avait contribué à engendrer et quelles avaient été

Proceedings Indian History Congress

by Indian History Congress

the elite sometimes , had a tendency to keep trading even when Gujarat or later
the Mughals were at war with Portuguese . ... In other areas also we find this sort
of interaction . ... for while the landscape looks European the Christian ladies
engaged in worship look very Indian , and their shrine is rather temple - like . 37
The ...

Proceedings Indian History Congress

Author: Indian History Congress

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Interaction of Cultures

by Joachim Bautze

Indian and Western Painting, 1780-1910 : the Ehrenfeld Collection Joachim
Bautze ... parts of it , the artist transformed the apostles into religious figures that
he knew from earlier Mughal drawings , without attempting to create a precise
copy of ...

Interaction of Cultures

Author: Joachim Bautze

Publisher:

ISBN:

Page: 378

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