Author: B. N. GoswamyPublisher:
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Category : Mogul Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Mogul and Sikh Rulers and the Vaishnavas of Pindori
Author: B. N. GoswamyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mogul Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The Mughal and Sikh Rulers and the Vaishnavas of Pindori
Author: B.N. GoswamyReligious Cultures in Early Modern India
Author: Rosalind O'HanlonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317982878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of the state. Royal and merchant patronage stimulated the growth of new classes of mobile intellectuals deeply committed to the reappraisal of many aspects of religious law and doctrine. Supra-regional institutions and networks of many other kinds - sect-based religious maths, pilgrimage centres and their guardians, sants and sufi orders - flourished, offering greater mobility to wider communities of the pious. This was also a period of growing vigour in the development of vernacular religious literatures of different kinds, and often of new genres blending elements of older devotional, juridical and historical literatures. Oral and manuscript literatures too gained more rapid circulation, although the meaning and canonical status of texts frequently changed as they circulated more widely and reached larger lay audiences. Through explorations of these developments, the essays in this collection make a distinctive contribution to a critical formative period in the making of India’s modern religious cultures. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Religion and Politics in India During the Seventeenth Century
Author: Mohammad Akram Lari AzadPublisher:
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Category : Mogul Empire
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Indian Books in Print
Author: National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
AIIS Quarterly Newsletter
Author: American Institute of Indian StudiesPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressWestern Himalayan Temple Records
Author: Mahesh SharmaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047430379
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
While numerous studies exist on major South-Asian temples, surprisingly little is known about ‘minor shrines’ and ‘lesser states’. Here fifty-five new documents, in a western-Himalayan script and language, and belonging to a small Siddha shrine, redress this remarkable gap in our knowledge. The documents cover a wide spectrum—from revenue grants to those dealing with ritual, pilgrimage, legality and temple-economy—thus building a picture of the relationship between state and shrine, and particularly so for the minor centres: their popularity and relationship with major temples; mundane matters; notices, petitions, and law-suits. It becomes clear how ‘lesser states’, despite their limited resources, patronized numerous small shrines, along with major temples; and the role played by the Nath-Siddha-ascetics in creating consent-to-rule, acculturation, and constructing hybridity between the Hindu and Tibetan-Buddhist traditions.