Balachandran's outstanding book brings to light the dense web of relationships-of
power, kinship, and memory-that constituted Gujarat's politics...The book will be
essential reading for anyone interested in precolonial India, South Asian Islam, or
the history of textual transmission.' -Samira Sheikh, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University, USA
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran is Assistant Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. A historian of medieval and early modern (c. 1200-1800) South Asia, Balachandran received her doctoral degree at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is interested in social and cultural histories of Muslim communities in Gujarat and the wider Indian Ocean world. Her research has appeared in the Indian Economic and Social History Review and she has contributed
several articles to the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.