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At the Confluence of Two Rivers: Muslims and Hindus in South India
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Manohar
| Author:
Jackie Assayag
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
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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 alteriry/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.
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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 alteriry/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.
About Author
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 colère de la déesse décapitée. Traditions, cultes et pouvoir dans le Sud de l'Inde; L'Inde fabuleuse; L'Inde. Désir de nation; and the editor of The Resources of History. Tradition, Narration and Nation in South Asia; and co-editor of Alterité et identiti. Ism et christianisme en Inde; La possession en Asie du Sud; At Home in Diaspora. South Asian Intellectuals and the West
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