Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality

ISBN-13: 9780367730147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Yogesh Snehi

Opis

This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary north-west India. It utilizes a combination of analytical tools and new theoretical tropes to understand and situate popular Sufi shrines so that they become historicized and spatialized.

Spis treści

Introduction: situating popular veneration 1 Historiography, fieldwork and debates on sacred shrines 2 Shrines, wilayat and lived landscapes 3 Dreams, memories, dissent 4 Popular art, circulation and visualization of space Epilogue: sites of memory Bibliography

O autorze

Yogesh Snehi teaches history at the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India. Previously, he was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla (2013–2015). His major teaching and research interests focus on Punjab and the debates on popular religion and its practice. Through a Tasveer Ghar fellowship, he has created a digital repository of images for the ‘heidICON’ image and multimedia database of Heidelberg University which is in circulation at Sufi shrines in contemporary Punjab. He has co-edited the book Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana (2018) and also edited the Winter 2017 issue of Summerhill: IIAS Review, Shimla.