• ISBN13: 9780195678765
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: August 17, 2005
• Pages: 388
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 426 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History

About the Book This book addresses a range of debates regarding religious movements in the medieval and early modern periods. Eleven key essays debate the linkages between the religious and worldly aims of different movements and the continuity and change in their ideologies, social bases, and organizational structures over time. They present divergent views on important issues such as the relationship between caste and the sect, the idea of renunciation, the role of the Sufis in the conversion to Islam in medieval India, and the ways in which many South Asian popular movements emerged and gathered force.