Historiography, fieldwork and popular Sufi shrines in the Indian Punjab

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8961865
AutoresYogesh Snehi (0000-0002-7164-6971, Ambedkar University Delhi, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen56
Número2
Páginas195-226
Fecha de publicación2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0019464619835667
OpenAlexW2944845347
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas47

Based on three case-studies of popular Sufi shrines that have been in continuous existence in post-Partition Indian Punjab, this article examines the prevalent discourse of ‘secular’ historiography in India that privileges the archive and situates the narrative strategy of the popular as marginal or outside of historical discourse. Instead, I argue that a fuller understanding of social processes, outside of prescribed imaginary binaries of secularity and/or conflict, can take place only through attention to lived experience and communitarian formation. It is these registers of religious practice that suggests non-statist histories which demand the evolution of critical theories and methods to account for lived experiences that persist outside of nationalising discourses

Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Ethnology · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · North india · Partition (number theory · Reincarnation · Secularity · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora