Literary and religious practices in medieval and early modern India / edited by Raziuddin Aquil, David L. Curley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aquil, Raziuddin, editor.

Curley, David L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature.

History.

Religion.

India--Religion--19th century.

India.

Indic literature--History.

India--Religion.

India--Religious life and customs.

Sufism--India--History.

Sufism.

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Sufi attitudes toward homosexuality : Chishti perspectives from South Asia / Scott Kugle

Religious sects, syncretism, and claims of antiquity : the Dashanami-Sannyasis and South Asian Sufis / Matthew Clark

Mingling of the oceans : a journey through the works of Dara Shikuh / Mridula Jha

Contested religious identities in Prannathi textual discourses during the reign of emperor Aurangzeb / Sandhya Sharma

Ballads, public memory, and history in the littoral zone of eastern Bengal / David L. Curley

The story of Jayamati's humiliation and death : reworking of the indigenous sources in assamese historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Sudeshna Purkayastha

Retelling medieval history for twentieth-century readers : encounter of a hindu prince and a Sufi master in Khwaja Hasan Nizami's Nizami Bansuri / Mikko Viitamäki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1138280313

9781138280311

OCLC:

1012676391