Spatializing Popular Sufi Shrines in Punjab: Dreams, Memories, Territoriality

by Yogesh Snehi

Book Overview

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 provides an insight into their urban and rural landscapes in the post-Partition (Indian) Punjab.

What happened to these shrines when attempts were made to dissuade Sikhs, Muslims and Hindus from their veneration of popular saints in the early twentieth century?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138057886
• ISBN13: 9781138057883
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"