Hindu, Muslim, and the Dynamics of South Asian Identity

Belonging and Conflict from the Past to the Present. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 288 Seiten
ISBN 1350569151
EAN 9781350569157
Veröffentlicht 13. November 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic
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Beschreibung

This volume highlights the historical complexities bound up in Hindu-Muslim relations in South Asia and challenges over-simplistic understandings of these relations by demonstrating that they are, and have always been, complex and contingent.

Portrait

Peter Gottschalk is Professor of Religion and Professor of Global South Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, USA. His research focuses on the theoretical, historical and contemporary dimensions of Indian religious interactions. Among other books, he has published Religion, Science, and Empire: Classifying Hindus and Muslims in British India (2013) and Beyond Hindu and Muslim: Multiple Identity in Narratives from Village India (2000).