The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India : The Case of Sindh (1851–1929) /: The Case of Sindh (1851–1929). (2020)
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- Title:
- The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India : The Case of Sindh (1851–1929) /: The Case of Sindh (1851–1929). (2020)
- Main Title:
- The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India : The Case of Sindh (1851–1929)
- Further Information:
- Note: Michel Boivin.
- Authors:
- Boivin, Michel
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: The building of colonial knowledge and its aftermathFrom culture to episteme: Vernacular knowledge and the Sufi paradigmScope and objectivesPart 1: Colonisation and the Shaping of Vernacular KnowledgeChapter 2: The set-up of the colonial knowledge on SindhIntroductionKnowledge and its agents in precolonial Sindh Sindhi as a distinct languageThe era of standardisation: Language and scriptTranslating, printing, and the making of the Sindhi munshiGrammar and the dictionaryConclusionChapter 3: The transmission of colonial knowledge IntroductionThe colonial knowledge of the societyEducation for transmitting colonial knowledgeThe formalisation of colonial knowledge through gazetteersConclusionChapter 4: Knowledge, Sufism, and the issue of a Vernacular literature IntroductionRichard Burton, or the Orientalist EthnographerBurton's ethnography of Sindh and his principle of intercessionLiteratures as a 'weapon in our hands' Conclusion Part 2: Social Mobility and The Makings of the Sufi Paradigm Chapter 5: the archaeology of the Sufi paradigmIntroductionThe printing of the Shah jo RisaloThe Sufi paradigm and the issue of a Persian patternThe Sufi paradigm at its earliest stageConclusionChapter 6: Social mobility and the set-up of a Sufi paradigmIntroductionThe spread of the middle class and the issue of progressThe intelligentsia and the objectification of the Shah jo RisaloColonial Sufism as antiquityConclusionChapter 7: Sufi knowledge (ilm tasawuf), sufi culture, and theChapter 1: The building of colonial knowledge and its aftermathFrom culture to episteme: Vernacular knowledge and the Sufi paradigmScope and objectivesPart 1: Colonisation and the Shaping of Vernacular KnowledgeChapter 2: The set-up of the colonial knowledge on SindhIntroductionKnowledge and its agents in precolonial Sindh Sindhi as a distinct languageThe era of standardisation: Language and scriptTranslating, printing, and the making of the Sindhi munshiGrammar and the dictionaryConclusionChapter 3: The transmission of colonial knowledge IntroductionThe colonial knowledge of the societyEducation for transmitting colonial knowledgeThe formalisation of colonial knowledge through gazetteersConclusionChapter 4: Knowledge, Sufism, and the issue of a Vernacular literature IntroductionRichard Burton, or the Orientalist EthnographerBurton's ethnography of Sindh and his principle of intercessionLiteratures as a 'weapon in our hands' Conclusion Part 2: Social Mobility and The Makings of the Sufi Paradigm Chapter 5: the archaeology of the Sufi paradigmIntroductionThe printing of the Shah jo RisaloThe Sufi paradigm and the issue of a Persian patternThe Sufi paradigm at its earliest stageConclusionChapter 6: Social mobility and the set-up of a Sufi paradigmIntroductionThe spread of the middle class and the issue of progressThe intelligentsia and the objectification of the Shah jo RisaloColonial Sufism as antiquityConclusionChapter 7: Sufi knowledge (ilm tasawuf), sufi culture, and the sufi paradigmIntroductionMirza Qalich Beg, or the Exemplary Sindhi ScholarBibliography, lexicography, and the Sufi paradigm in Mirza Qalich Beg's workSufi Knowledge (Ilm Tasawuf) and the Sufi paradigmJethmal Parsram Gulraj and the Sufi cultureConclusion Chapter 8: The deployment of the Sufi paradigm IntroductionThe Sufi paradigm beyond the Shah jo Risalo (or the second step of the SP)The Sufi paradigm beyond Sufism and Islam (third step of the SP)The Sufi paradigm beyond Sindh (fourth step of the SP)New trends in early twentieth century knowledge: The spread of the qissoThe Sufi paradigm and the printed knowledge marketConclusionPart 3: Challenging the Sufi Paradigm in the Era of Communalismchapter 9: The Sufi paradigm and the normative regimes of knowledgeIntroductionThe codification of Islam and Hinduism: Sanatan dharma versus UmmaReformism and Universalism among the HindusSunni ReformismThe Church Missionary SocietyThe new conjuncture of the 1920sConclusionChapter 10: the Sufi paradigm and the devotional regimes of knowledgeIntroductionThe attempt to create a DaryapanthThe Hinduisation of the NanakpanthThe Shia regime of knowledge in the public sphere From Khoja to Ismaili: The Aga Khani regime of knowledgeConclusionChapter 11: oral knowledge and the Sufi paradigmIntroductionThe figure of the bardOral knowledge and the devotional corpusThe bardic performanceConclusionChapter 12: Conclusion: What is vernacular in the Sufi paradigm? Appendix. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Copyright Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (318 pages)
- Subjects:
- Social sciences
Ethnology
Epistemology
Religion and sociology
Philosophy -- Epistemology
History -- Asia -- India & South Asia
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
Asian history
Religious issues & debates
Social Science -- Anthropology -- General
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Asia--History - Languages:
- English
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- 9783030419912
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- 9783030419905
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