Surprising Bedfellows - Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India

Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India argues that religious and cultural identities in medieval and early modern India were marked by fluid and constantly shifting relationships rather than by the binary model of opposition that is assumed in so much scholarship.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Hindus, Muslims, and the Other in Eighteenth Century India Chapter 4 Fortuitous Convergences and Essential Ambiguities: Transcultural Political Elites in the Medieval Deccan Chapter 5 Surprising Bedfellows: Vaisnava and Shi'a Alliance in Kavi Ariph's 'Tale of Lalmon' Chapter 6 The dharma of Islam and the din of Hinduism: Hindus and Muslims in the Age of Sivaji Chapter 7 Conclusion

About the author

Sushil Mittal is Assistant Professor of Religion and the John C. Griswold Distinguished Professorship in Religion at Millikin University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sushil Mittal (Editor), Mittal Sushil (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2003
• EAN: 9780739106730
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0673-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 331 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Ecumenism & Interfaith, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, RELIGION / Islam / History, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, India, History of Religion, Hinduism, Interfaith relations