At the Confluence of Two Rivers

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Relations between Hindus and Muslims are a matter of vital concern in contemporary India. Islam and Hinduism, frequently reduced to stereotypes, is not always accompanied by a thorough consideration of the complexity of the mutual relations of attraction and repulsion which ‘the people of the Book’ and various Hindu castes have maintained for more than a thousand years. Having evoked the historical and social circumstances of the implantation of Islam in South Asia, the author presents the situation of Muslims in Karnataka, where the dynamics of the cultural forms of pair alterity / identity has seldom been studied. In the framework of an anthropological investigation conducted in the region over a period of several years, the complexity of interactions between Hindus and Muslims fully emerges. Their relations are explored in the village and in the urban milieu, among saints cum-healers or during ceremonies of fakirs, across hybrid cults or within the individual community, in daily life as well as on the occasion of festivals. Finally, the socio-historical study of the rise to prominence of the inter-communitarian exclusivism which extends to the core of collective memories. Thus, local knowledge casts light on the destiny of the subcontinent, at the same time as it offers possibilities of comparison.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jackie Assayag

Jackie Assayag is Director of Research at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and affiliated to EHESS, Paris. He has worked extensively on anthropology, sociology and politics in modern India. He is the author of La colere de la deesse decapitee. Traditions, cultes of pouvoir dans le Sud de I’Inde, L’Inde fabuleuse; L’Inde. Desir de natioin; and the editor of The Resources of History, Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia; and coeditor of Alterite et identite. Islam et christianisme en Inde, La possession en Asie du Sud. At Home in Diaspora. South Asian Intellecetuals and the West.

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Title
At the Confluence of Two Rivers
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8173045127
Length
313p., Figures; Tables; Maps; Notes; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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