TY - BOOK TI - Negotiating religion: perspectives from indian history SN - 978817349248 U1 - 200.954 PY - 2012/// CY - Delhi PB - Manohar N1 - PART I: TEXTS, TRADITIONS AND DISCOURSE 1. Of Binaries and Beyond: The Dialectics of Buddhist-Brahmanical Relations in India Uma Chakravarti 2. Tradition and Memory; Filiation and Identity in Early Sanskrit Literature and Philosophy Heeraman Tiwari 3. Representations of a Past: The Life of Ramanuja and the SrTvaisnava Community Ranjeeta Dutta 4. Culture Under Interpretative Stress: Bankim Chandra and the Re-Formulation of 'Dharma' in Colonial Bengal Amiya P. Sen PART II: DIVINITY AND THE FEMININE: REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER AND GENDER RELATIONS 5. A Home for the Goddess: Structural Shrines for Independent Female Deities in Early Medieval Tamilakam, c. ce 600-1300 R. Mahalakshmi 6. Radha and Radhaism: Neutralizing Gender in Brajmaya Krsnaism of Medieval Braj Farhat Nasreen PART III: RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES: NEGOTIATING CONFLICT AND ACCOMMODATION 7. Understanding Sufi-Sant Interaction in Medieval India Rameshwar Pixisad Bahuguna 8. Saiyid Ahmad Barelvi, Altaf Husain Hali and the Fonnation of Muslim Identity in the Nineteenth Century N.R. Farooqi 9. Exclusive Resources and Inclusive Objectives: Islam in the Making of Indian Nationalism: 1857-1922 Rizwan Qaiser 10. Christianity and the Mizo Identity: A Review of Sociological and Historical Circumstances Joy L.K. Pachiiau 11. Religion and Social 'Subversion': Re-examining Colonial Orissa Biswamoy Pati 12. Religious Rhetoric, Mercantile Strategies and a Community in Revolt: A Study on the Conflicts between the St. Thomas Christians and the Portuguese Padroado Pius Malekandathil 13. Sufis and Communal Harmony: A Case Study of Indian Sufis S.M. Azizuddin Husain ER -