1st Edition
Literary and Religious Practices in Medieval and Early Modern India
Introduction (Raziuddin Aquil and David L. Curley) 1. Sufi Attitudes toward Homosexuality: Chishti Perspectives from South Asia (Scott Kugle) 2. Religious Sects, Syncretism, and Claims of Antiquity: The Dashanami-Sannyasis and South-Asian Sufis (Matthew Clark ) 3. Mingling of the Oceans: A Journey Through the Works of Dara Shikuh (Mridula Jha) 4. Contested Religious Identities in Prannathi Textual Discourses during the Reign of Emperor Aurangzeb (Sandhya Sharma) 5. Ballads, Public Memory, and History in the Littoral Zone of Eastern Bengal (David L. Curley) 6. The Story of Jayamati’s Humiliation and Death: Reworking of the Indigenous Sources in Assamese Historiography of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Sudeshna Purkayastha) 7. 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)
Biography
Raziuddin Aquil is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi, India.
David L. Curley is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Liberal Studies, Western Washington University, USA.
