The Dargah Culture in Ajmer Sharif: An Antidote to Hindu-Muslim Conflicts?
10.28.2016 | 3:00 – 5:00 PM | Institute for South Asia Studies Conference Room, 10 Stephens Hall
with Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris: Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King College, London.
Presided and Moderated by: Professor Paola Bacchetta, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies; Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race & Gender, UC Berkeley
Speaker Introduced by: Angana Chatterji, Visiting Research Anthropologist and Co-chair, Project on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights, Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley
The Dargah culture of Sufi saints developed around Sufi tombs and shrines from the Middle Ages onwards. The cultures of the Dargah contributed to anchoring Islam across (what is today) Indian territory. Highlighting Ajmer Sharif, this talk explores the cultural and spiritual relations of non-Muslims, including of Hindus and Hindtuva, to the cultures of the Dargah.
Hosted by the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project, Center for Race and Gender. Co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Center for South Asia at Stanford University.