Living Together Separately
Cultural India in History and Politics
Published on 19. May 2005
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-19-566921-3 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays effectively reflects the ongoing debate around the ideas of syncretism, synthesis, and pluralism in South Asia today. It discusses various aspects of syncretism in India while problematizing the very concept of syncretism. The essays pose a number of pertinent and relevant questions, even as they focus on various individuals, moments, and encounters in Indian history. How does one define syncretism? What is the difference between syncretism and pluralism? Is it possible to live together separately? The volume takes a fresh look at various historical events, personalities, and phenomena, and makes an effort to revise many long-held, black-and-white, uni-dimensional views such as unity in diversity and composite culture . This volume boasts of an impressive array of well-known scholars, such as Asim Roy, Michael Fisher, Francis Robinson, Gurpreet Mahajan, Shail Mayaram, Barbara Metcalf, David Lelyveld, Alok Bhalla, Sudhir Chandra, Farzana Shaikh, Peter van de r Veer, Rajat Kanta Ray, and Kumkum Sangari.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval and modern Indian history as well as lay readers interested in the question of Indian pluralism as reflected in its history.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval and modern Indian history as well as lay readers interested in the question of Indian pluralism as reflected in its history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 158 mm
Weight
808 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-566921-3 (9780195669213)
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Content
PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PERSPECTIVES:1. THINKING OVER POPULAR ISLAM IN SOUTH ASIA: SEARCH FOR A PARADIGM; 2. REFERENCES TO TRADITION IN SOUTH ASIA; 3. COLONIAL LANGUAGE CLASSIFICATION, POST-COLONIAL LANGUAGE MOVEMENTS, AND THE GRASSROOTS MULTILINGUALISM ETHOS IN INDIA; 4. REINVENTING DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN A PLURAL SOCIETY; PROCESSES: 5. A HOLI RIOT OF 1714: VERSIONS FROM AHMEDABAD AND DELHI; 6. LIVING TOGETHER: AJMER AS A PARADIGM FOR THE (SOUTH) ASIAN CITY; 7. THE COW-SAVING MUSLIM SAINT: ELITE AND FOLK REPRESENTATIONS OF A TOMB CULT IN OUDH; 8. A GENRE OF COMPOSITE CERAVITY: MARSIYA AND ITS PERFORMANCE IN AWADH; 9. OF GRAVEYARDS AND GHETTOS: MUSLIM IN PARTITIONED WEST BENGAL, 1947 1967; 10. FROM BEEHIVE CELLS TO CIVIL SPACE: A HISTORY OF INDIAN MATRIMONY; ACTORS: 11. JOINT NARRATIVES, SEPARATE NATIONS: QURRATULAIN HYDER S AAG KA DARYA; 12. FROM PRINCELY COURT TO HOUSE OF COMMONS: D.O. DYCE SOMBRE (1808 1851); 13. SHARIF CULTURE AND COLONIAL RULE: A MAULVI -MISSIONARY ENCOUNTE; R; 14. LIVING TOGETHER SEPARATELY: THE ULAMA OF FARANGI MAHALL C.1700 C.1950; 15. MILLAT AND MAZHAB: RETHINKING IQBAL S POLITICAL VISION; 16. REINVENTING ISLAMIC POLITICS IN INTER-WAR INDIA: THE CLERGY COMMITMENT TO COMPOSITE NATIONALISM; 17. SAMPURNANAND, SECULARISM, AND RELIGIOUS SYNCRETISM IN UP BETWEEN THE 1930S AND 1960S; 18. THE COLONIAL CONTEXT OF MUSLIM SEPARATISM: FROM SAYYID AHMAD BARELVI TO SAYYID AHMAD KHAN