Religion In Indian History

Religion In Indian History

Product ID: 23164

Regular price
$40.70
Sale price
$40.70
Regular price
Sold out
Unit price
per 
Shipping calculated at checkout.

Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days

Author: Irfan Habib
Several Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Edito: Irfan Habib
Publisher: Tulika
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 291
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-89487-25-6

Description

Religion has been, and is, an important element in Indian society and history. It is, however, rare for the subject to be discussed with the necessary degree of detachment.

This volume was, therefore, planned with the object of providing a collection of studies that would deal with the role of religion in Indian history on the basis of a rigorous application of academic criteria. The results may surprise those who are more familiar with chauvinistic or apologetic interpretations.

The editor’s introduction and the fifteen chapters range over an extensive period, from pre-history to the present day, and take up specific problems of crucial significance in exploring the inter-relationship between religion and social change.

This volume draws on new research and is meant for academics as well as general readers, who may find here much that is of relevance to their social and intellectual concerns.

Contents

Preface

Introduction
IRFAN HABIB

In Search of the Roots of Religion or Dharma:
Linguistic and Social Routes
D.P. CHATTOPADHYAYA

Religions in Complex societies:
The Myth of the ‘Dark Age’
K.M. SHRIMALI

Social Dimensions of the Cult of Rama
SUVIRA JAISWAL

Eros and History: Sahjiya secrets and the
Tantric Culture of Love
NUPUR CHAUDHURI / RAJAT KANTA RAY

Religion and material Life in Ancient India:
D.D. Kosambi and Niharranjan Ray
BARUN DE

The Islamic Background to Indian History:
An Interpretation of the Islamic Past
M. ATHAR ALI

Kabir: The Historical Setting
IRFAN HABIB

Akbar and the Theologians’ Declaration
(Mahzar) of 1579
OSAMU KONDO

The Road to Sulh-I Kul: Akbar’s Alienation from
Theological Islam
SHIREEN MOOSVI

The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and its
Influence in India
SYED ALI NADEEM REZAVI

Women in the Sikh discourse:
Liberation or Ambivalence?
KAMLESH MOHAN

Constructing the Hindu Identity
DWIJENDRA NARAYAN JHA

From Religious and Social Reform to Economic
Nationalism: The Nineteenth-Century Reformers
Of Andhra
V. RAMAKRISHNA

Reason and Faith: A Defence of Foucault’s Critique
Of Post-Enlightenment Modernity
FARHAT HASAN

Contemporary communalism:
Textuality and mass Culture
NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI

Contributors

Index