Representing the Others? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims

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Modern history-writing, by giving Muslims a single identity from the time that different groups practising Islam started arriving in India, has made an arbitrarily clear distinction between early and later immigrants. This has produced the mindset, still strongly entrenched and often receiving academic support, that Indian history, and Indian citizens, are divisible on the basis of religion. The question whether this indeed was the perspective of Indians of earlier times has never been thoroughly investigated with reference to relevant written sources. While accepting that written sources alone cannot reveal all strands of thinking, this monograph nevertheless examines a wide range of epigraphic and historical texts to examine how differently newcomers to Indian society could figure in different contexts. The monograph also seeks to offer, in cultural terms, an explanation for these different, often contradictory representations, of those who are singled out as outsiders to Indian society.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya

Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya was educated at Calcutta and Cambridge. He has taught at Burdwan University and at Viswabharati, and for the longest tenure at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he is currently Professor of History. His books include Coins and Currency Systems in South India (1977), The Making of Early Medieval India (1994) and Representing the Other? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims (1998). He has edited several volumes, including most recently the collected essays of D.D. Kosambi, titled Combined Methods in Indology and Other Essays (2002).

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Title
Representing the Others? Sanskrit Sources and the Muslims
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Edition
1st. ed.
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ISBN
8173042527
Length
129p., Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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