Historiography, fieldwork and popular Sufi shrines in the Indian Punjab

Bibliographic Data

ID8961865
AuthorsYogesh Snehi (0000-0002-7164-6971, Ambedkar University Delhi, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume56
Issue2
Pages195-226
Publication date2019-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0019464619835667
OpenAlexW2944845347
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited47

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