Religious Interactions in Mughal India

by Dalmia, Vasudha; Faruqui, Munis D.

• ISBN13: 9780198081678
• ISBN10: 0198081677
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-12-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Vasudha Dalmia is Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Hindu Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University.

Munis D. Faruqui is Associate Professorin the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Section I: Of Intersections
1. Ideology and State-Building: Humayan's Search for Legitimacy in an Hindu-Muslim Environment, Eva Orthamann
2. Dara Shukoh, Vedanta, and Imperial Succession in Mughal India, Munis Faruqui
3. The Prince and the Muvahhid: Dara Shikoh and Mughal Engagements with Vedanta, Supriya Gandhi
4. Learned Brahmins and the Mughal Court: The Jyotisas, Christopher Minkowski
5. Between Gaya and Karbala: The Textual Identification of Persian Hindu Poets from Lucknow in the Tazkira of Bhagwan Das "Hindi", Stefano Pello
6. Faith and Allegiance in the Mughal Era: Perspectives from Rajasthan, Ramya Sreenivasan
Section II: Of proximity and distance
7. Inflected Kathas: Sufis and Krishna Bhaktas in Awadh, Francesca Orsini
8. Sant and Sufi in Sundardas's Poetry, Monika Horstmann
9. Hagiography and the Other in the Vallabha Sampradaya, Vasudha Dalmia
10. Diatribes against Saktas in Banarasi Bazaars and Rural Rajasthan: Kabir and his Ramanandi Hagiographers, Heidi Pauwels
11. Muslims as Devotees and Outsiders: Attitudes Towards Muslims in the Varta literature of the Vallabha Sampradaya, Shandip Saha
12. Mahamat Prannath and the Pranami Movement: Hinduism and Islam in the Service of a Mercantile Sect, Brendan LaRocque
Note on Editors and Contributors
Index