Religious interactions in Mughal India / edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Munis D. Faruqui.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalmia, Vasudha, 1947- editor.

Faruqui, Munis D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mughal Empire--Religion.

Mughal Empire.

Mughal Empire--Ethnic relations.

Islam--Relations--Hinduism.

Islam.

Relations.

Hinduism.

Hinduism--Relations--Islam.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 391 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

I Of Intersections

1 Ideology and State-Building: Humayun's Search for Legitimacy in a Hindu-Muslim Environment / Eva Orthmann Orthmann, Eva 3

2 Dara Shukoh, Vedanta, and Imperial Succession in Mughal India / Munis D. Faruqui Faruqui, Munis D. 30

3 The Prince and the Muvahhid: Dara Shikoh and Mughal Engagements with Vedanta / Supriya Gandhi Gandhi, Supriya 65

4 Learned Brahmins and the Mughal Court: The Jyotisas / Christopher Minkowski Minkowski, Christopher 102

5 Drowned in the Sea of Mercy: The Textual Identification of Hindu Persian Poets from Shi'i Lucknow in the Tazkira of Bhagwan Das "Hindi" / Stefano Pellò Pellò, Stefano 135

6 Faith and Allegiance in the Mughal Era: Perspectives from Rajasthan / Ramya Sreenivasan Sreenivasan, Ramya 159

II Of Proximity and Distance

7 Inflected Kathas: Sufis and Krishna Bhaktas in Awadh / Francesca Orsini Orsini, Francesca 195

8 Sant and Sufi in Sundatdas's Poetry / Monika Horstmann Horstmann, Monika 233

9 Hagiography and the "Other" in the Vallabha Sampradaya / Vasudha Dalmia Dalmia, Vasudha 264

10 Diatribes against Saktas in Banarasi Bazaars and Rural Rajasthan: Kabir and His Ramanandi Hagiographers / Heidi Pauwels Pauwels, Heidi 290

11 Muslims as Devotees and Outsiders: Attitudes toward Muslims in the Varta Literature of the Vallabha Sampradaya / Shandip Saha Saha, Shandip 319

12 Mahamat Prannath and the Pranami Movement: Hinduism and Islam in a Seventeenth-Century Mercantile Sect / Brendan Larocque Larocque, Brendan 342.

Notes:

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198081677

9780198081678

OCLC:

893548630

Publisher Number:

99961551691