Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Dasgupta, Nupur; Mukherjee, Tilottama

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2023

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Introduction Part I: Sacred Spaces and Cultural Landscapes 1. The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: Re-examining Early Coastal Temples in Gujarat 2. Mathura: Exploring a Complex Associative Cultural Landscape (From 2nd Century BCE to 2nd Century CE) 3. Perfumes in 16th-18th Century India: A 'Religious-Cultural' Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-Landscape 4. Patronage as Political Proxy: 18th-Century State-Building and Religious Patronage in Ajmer and Pushkar Part II: Religious Traditions and Texts 5. Anthologies of Difference: Situating the Anthologies of Sadhanamala and Caryapada in the Sacred Space of Tantric Buddhism 6. The Transformative Presence of Sufis in Medieval Indian Environment: Anecdotes of Miraculous Conversion and Islamicisation in Chishti Literature from the Delhi Sultanate 7. Conversion and Translation: Life and Work of Dom Antonio do Rosario Part III: The Material and the Sacred in Bengal 8. Settlements of Kasimbazar and Murshidabad, CE 1650-1800 CE 9. Physical Environment, Customary Practices, and the English East India Company Regime: A Narrative of Salt Smuggling in Late 18th-Century Lower Deltaic Bengal 10. Rise of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Evolution of Bengali Platter in 16th to 18th Centuries 11. Early Medieval Material Culture of Coastal Bengal with special reference to the site of Kankandighi
Pre-modern South Asia;4th Century CE;Gaudiya Vaishnavism;Al Din Chishti;Jai Singh II;Nizam Ud Din Auliya;St Century BCE;Tamil Nadu;Buddhist Tantra;Century CE;Gaudiya Vaishnava;Salt Smuggling;Tantric Buddhism;Sri Chaitanya;Salt Department;Copper Plate Charters;Murshid Quli;Early Medieval Settlements;Coastal Bengal;Bari Basti;Copper Plate Grants;Bakhtiyar Kaki;Salt Agent;Sufi Shaikh;Asian Merchants