Making space : Sufis and settlers in early modern India.

Green, Nile.

Making space : Sufis and settlers in early modern India. / Nile Green. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2012. - xvii, 339 p :ill;23 cm.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social transformation in early modern India between 1500 and 1750 by studying various Sufi movements. It covers a wide range of topics from Sufism and polity in the Afghan frontier to north Indian context and further to Deccan and the southernmost points of influence of the Mughals. Weaving together investigations of architecture with texts, migration of people, and the ethnographies and local histories, the author investigates community formation and inter-community contact. He reveals the tensions between mobility and locality through the ways Sufi Islam responded to demands of settlement by preserving the migrant bodies of blessed men and the shrines, texts and rituals that surrounded them. The book explores how Afghan, Mughal and Hindustani Muslims constructed new homelands while remembering distant places of origin.

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Factors affecting social behavior
Emigration and immigration
Islam

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