Oxford seminar Religious Cultures in South Asia, c. 1500-1800 (5-6 June 2009)

Oxford Early Modern South Asia Workshop
Faculty of Oriental Studies and Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College

Religious Cultures in South Asia, c. 1500-1800

5-6 June 2009, Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s College

Muzaffar Alam, Chicago: „ “The Sufi has no Religion” (al-Sufi la mazhab la-hu): A Mughal Indian Discourse on Religious Truth‟

Supriya Gandhi, Harvard: „Persian Writings on Indic Religions: The Reception of Dara Shikoh‟s Sirr-i Akbar‟

Heidi Pauwels, Washington: „Bhakti for upwardly mobile warlords in the new Mughal imperial formation‟

Donald R. Davis, Wisconsin-Madison: „Documentary Regimens of Legal and Religious Administration in Early
Modern Kerala‟

Polly O‟Hanlon, Oxford: „Dharmadhikari families, intellectual networks and personal narratives of penance and
purification in early modern western India‟

Tony Stewart, North Carolina: „Heaven On Earth: Religious Nostalgia as Social Blueprint in early Gaudiya
Vaisnavism‟

Tanika Sarkar, Delhi: „Holy Infants: Caste and Sect Formation and the Miraculous Childhoods of gods and
Saints in Early Modern Bengal‟

Axel Michaels, Heidelberg: „The legislation of (death) impurity in early modern Nepal‟

Nina Mirnig, Oxford: „Adapting to the mainstream in early medieval India: the gradual emergence of death rites
in the Shaiva Siddhanta‟

Jack Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia: „The Four Sampradayas: Ordering the Religious Past in Early
Mughal North India‟

Christian Novetzke, Washington: „The Brahmin Double: The Brahminical Construction of Anti-Brahminism and
Anti-Caste Sentiment in the Religious Culture of Maharashtra, 1500-1800‟

Monika Horstmann, Heidelberg: „Theology and Statecraft‟

Hephzibah Israel, Delhi : „Authority, Patronage and Customary Practices: Protestant Devotion in Late Pre-
colonial South India‟

Francesca Orsini, SOAS: „Kathas as sites of religious interchange: Sufis and Krishna bhaktas in Awadh‟

Christopher Minkowski, Oxford: „Non-dualism and the culture war in early modern Banaras‟

Convenors: Polly O‟Hanlon, Oriental Studies, Oxford
David Washbrook, Trinity College, Cambridge

Registration and enquiries: jennifer.griffiths@sant.ox.ac.uk, tel. 01865-274559
Please state when registering whether you wish to have lunch in College with other participants on one or both
days. You would need to pay for this meal as you go through the servery.