This book explores the organic lives of popular Sufi shrines in contemporary Northwest
India. It traverses the worldview of shrine spaces, rituals and their complex narratives, and …

Drawing on literary, musical, and visual representations of and by Rastafari, Darren JN
Middleton provides an introduction to Rasta through the arts, broadly conceived. The …

Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan 2 firm religious binaries. Just as our neighbour
caused us confusion, the examples of national border crossings were equally puzzling. A …

India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together
two neglected areas of research in media studies in India-the intertwined genealogies of …

The introduction to the volume maps the malleability and mobile nature of the region,
arguing that it only exists in doing, knowing, and feeling, by stressing the various …

Music is often invoked as the “glue” that unites people like little else, perennial symbol of a
composite culture disrupted by the rupture of Partition. Such a simplistic perspective …

This article focuses on performing artists at the court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (r. 1801–39),
the last fully sovereign ruler of the Punjab and leader of what is termed the Sikh empire. After …

This entry surveys Sikhism in the context of the ethnography of Sikh communities in India
and other countries. Attention is paid to issues of definition, core Sikh beliefs, the evolution of …

Since Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's (NFAK's) untimely death in 1997, his reputation and popularity
does not seem to have waned. Indeed, whilst many members of the original Qawaali party …

While in many urban and rural landscapes church buildings are characteristic features in the
skyline, over time their socio-cultural functions have been assigned to other kinds of …