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This monograph is a humble attempt at a scholarly presentation of the various facets of the evolution and spread of the Sufi influence in India and a critical evaluation of the role played by the Sufi saints (belonging to different silsilas) both by way of disseminating the Sufi ideology among the Indian masses and also assimilating and imbibing into their own ideology some of the indigenous spiritual practices and techniques as practised by the Hindu yogis and ...
In the recent past, there has been a growing interest on the question of gender within historical research, which has come to be recognized as a fundamental category of social, cultural and historical reality, perspective and study. Women are no longer invisible in history. The present book critically analyses the success achieved by Gandhi in mobilizing women on a mass scale for the cause of the country’s independence. At Gandhi’s call, women began to come ...
Most authors feel that as a result of the changes made by the editors, their works might appear less than brilliant. A Good editor is able to convince the authors that their genius would be obscured minus the editorial revisions. Editors do not deny that the subject-matter of the manuscript is the author’s jurisdiction, but its presentation or organization and ‘packaging’, as Arthur Plotnik calls it, is the specially of the editor. The editor who shows due ...