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).

Hindu, Muslim is a welcome contribution to a growing body of literature on religious and social identities in South Asia. In prioritizing depth over breadth, the volume offers a robust, refreshing set of viewpoints that add layers of complexity to a subject of interest to all South Asianists.

• Introduction: Hindu, Muslim, Identities, Identifications, Belongings and Rejection, Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA)Part I: Interactions 1. The Matiya Rebellion and Religious Categories in Early Modern Gujarat, Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University, USA)2. Panipat Remembered: Before the Fort of Kalinjar, August 23 1803, William R. Pinch (Wesleyan University, USA)3. Minority Lessons: Education, Citizenship, and Religion in India, Parna Sengupta (Stanford University, USA)4. Hindu-Muslim Relations and North India’s Oldest Music Festival: The Harballabh Mela of Jalandhar, Radha Kapuria (University of Durham, UK)Part II: Interweavings 5. Account of a Journey from Vijayanagara to Golconda: On the Convergence of Sanskritic and Persianate Cultures in the Deccan, Philip Wagoner (Wesleyan University, USA)6. Urdu Literary Culture and a Shared Ethical Tradition in Late-Colonial India, Farina Mir (University of Michigan, USA)7. Resonant Pasts: Music, Memory, and Communalism in North India, Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London, UK)Part III: Interpellations8. The Lamp of Wisdom: Similes and Shared Symbolic Spatiality in Western India, Sara Keller (University of Erfurt, Germany)9. Marshalling Poets for the Nation: An Experiment in the Two Wings of Pakistan, 1947-1971, Rachel Fell McDermott (Columbia University, USA)Part VI: Divergences10. The End of Persianate Hinduism, Carl Ernst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)11. Cross-Cultural Friendships in a Partitioned Land: A Conversation, Amina Yaqin (University of Exeter, UK)12. Romance and Religion: Hindu Women, Muslim Men and Recalcitrant Intimacies in Modern India, Charu Gupta (University of Delhi, India)

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).

Hindu, Muslim is a welcome contribution to a growing body of literature on religious and social identities in South Asia. In prioritizing depth over breadth, the volume offers a robust, refreshing set of viewpoints that add layers of complexity to a subject of interest to all South Asianists.

• Introduction: Hindu, Muslim, Identities, Identifications, Belongings and Rejection, Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA)Part I: Interactions 1. The Matiya Rebellion and Religious Categories in Early Modern Gujarat, Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University, USA)2. Panipat Remembered: Before the Fort of Kalinjar, August 23 1803, William R. Pinch (Wesleyan University, USA)3. Minority Lessons: Education, Citizenship, and Religion in India, Parna Sengupta (Stanford University, USA)4. Hindu-Muslim Relations and North India’s Oldest Music Festival: The Harballabh Mela of Jalandhar, Radha Kapuria (University of Durham, UK)Part II: Interweavings 5. Account of a Journey from Vijayanagara to Golconda: On the Convergence of Sanskritic and Persianate Cultures in the Deccan, Philip Wagoner (Wesleyan University, USA)6. Urdu Literary Culture and a Shared Ethical Tradition in Late-Colonial India, Farina Mir (University of Michigan, USA)7. Resonant Pasts: Music, Memory, and Communalism in North India, Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London, UK)Part III: Interpellations8. The Lamp of Wisdom: Similes and Shared Symbolic Spatiality in Western India, Sara Keller (University of Erfurt, Germany)9. Marshalling Poets for the Nation: An Experiment in the Two Wings of Pakistan, 1947-1971, Rachel Fell McDermott (Columbia University, USA)Part VI: Divergences10. The End of Persianate Hinduism, Carl Ernst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)11. Cross-Cultural Friendships in a Partitioned Land: A Conversation, Amina Yaqin (University of Exeter, UK)12. Romance and Religion: Hindu Women, Muslim Men and Recalcitrant Intimacies in Modern India, Charu Gupta (University of Delhi, India)

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).

Hindu, Muslim is a welcome contribution to a growing body of literature on religious and social identities in South Asia. In prioritizing depth over breadth, the volume offers a robust, refreshing set of viewpoints that add layers of complexity to a subject of interest to all South Asianists.

• Introduction: Hindu, Muslim, Identities, Identifications, Belongings and Rejection, Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA)Part I: Interactions 1. The Matiya Rebellion and Religious Categories in Early Modern Gujarat, Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University, USA)2. Panipat Remembered: Before the Fort of Kalinjar, August 23 1803, William R. Pinch (Wesleyan University, USA)3. Minority Lessons: Education, Citizenship, and Religion in India, Parna Sengupta (Stanford University, USA)4. Hindu-Muslim Relations and North India’s Oldest Music Festival: The Harballabh Mela of Jalandhar, Radha Kapuria (University of Durham, UK)Part II: Interweavings 5. Account of a Journey from Vijayanagara to Golconda: On the Convergence of Sanskritic and Persianate Cultures in the Deccan, Philip Wagoner (Wesleyan University, USA)6. Urdu Literary Culture and a Shared Ethical Tradition in Late-Colonial India, Farina Mir (University of Michigan, USA)7. Resonant Pasts: Music, Memory, and Communalism in North India, Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London, UK)Part III: Interpellations8. The Lamp of Wisdom: Similes and Shared Symbolic Spatiality in Western India, Sara Keller (University of Erfurt, Germany)9. Marshalling Poets for the Nation: An Experiment in the Two Wings of Pakistan, 1947-1971, Rachel Fell McDermott (Columbia University, USA)Part VI: Divergences10. The End of Persianate Hinduism, Carl Ernst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)11. Cross-Cultural Friendships in a Partitioned Land: A Conversation, Amina Yaqin (University of Exeter, UK)12. Romance and Religion: Hindu Women, Muslim Men and Recalcitrant Intimacies in Modern India, Charu Gupta (University of Delhi, India)