Mukesh Kumar

Between Muslim Pir and Hindu Saint

Laldas and the Devotional Culture in North India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By focusing on the shared religious figure of Laldas/Khan, the book uncovers fascinating historical and contemporary dimensions of Hindu-Muslim socio-cultural interactions around his shrines. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009424035
• ISBN-10: 1009424033
• Artikelnr.: 69522223

Autorenporträt

Mukesh Kumar is a postdoctoral fellow (2021-¿23) at ETH Zürich. Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow (2019-¿21) at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University. He has published several research articles in journals, such as Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, (Cambridge University Press), Contemporary South Asia (Routledge), History and Anthropology (Routledge), and Economic and Political Weekly.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
A Note on Transliteration
1. The Spectre of Binaries
2. Laldas and Religious Duality of P¿r and Sant
3. The Laldas Shrines and Inter-religious Disputes
4. A Fait Accompli: The Complete Hinduisation of the Laldas Order
5. Religious Reform and Shared Shrines
6. Concealment and Secrecy: Hidden in Plain Sight
7. Poetic Response to Religious Puritanism
8. An Ephemeral Line in the Sand
Appendices
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.