The Persian Writings on Vedānta Attributed to Banwālīdās Walī

Gandhi, Supriya

doi:10.1007/s10781-019-09415-z

J Indian Philos

2019

DOI: 10.1007/s10781-019-09415-z

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The Persian Writings on Vedānta Attributed to Banwālīdās Walī

Supriya Gandhi

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“… 39 E.g., Bullhe Shah 2015 [ca. 1680–1757], on Hindu-Muslim: 68–69, 204–5, 226–27, 346–47; and on Hindu-Turk: 24–25, 30–31, 68–69, 142–43, 184–85, 224–25; Gorakh-bani quoted in Lorenzen 2011, 21–23 (who also compares with Kabir); Kashmiri saint Lal Ded: “Shiva abides in all that is, everywhere; / then do not discriminate between a Hindu or a Musalman” (Kaul 1973, 107; Kalla 1985, 34); Omnāma , from early modern Kashmir: “Truly, whether you are Hindu or Muslim / Viewing the soul is [the same as] viewing the [divine] beloved” (cited and translated in Gandhi 2020, 95); Todar Mal (ca. eighteenth century) argued that Jainism was superior to Islam and Hindu traditions (n.d., 174–76; Dundas 1999, 41–42). …”

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Hindu: A History

Truschke

2023

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This article provides a textured history of the multivalent term “hindu” over 2,500 years, with the goal of productively unsettling what we think we know. “Hindu” is a ubiquitous word in modern times, used by scholars and practitioners in dozens of languages to denote members of a religious tradition. But the religious meaning of “hindu” and its common use are quite new. Here I trace the layered history of “hindu,” part of an array of shifting identities in early and medieval India. In so doing, I draw upon an archive of primary sources—in Old Persian, New Persian, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, and more—that offers the kind of multilingual story needed to understand a term that has long cut across languages in South Asia. Also, I do not treat premodernity as a prelude but rather recognize it as the heart of this tale. So much of South Asian history—including over two thousand years of using the term “hindu”—has been misconstrued by those who focus only on British colonialism and later. We need a deeper consideration of South Asian pasts if we are to think more fruitfully about the terms and concepts that order our knowledge. Here, I offer one such contribution that marshals historical material on the multiform and fluid word “hindu” that can help us think more critically and precisely about this discursive category.

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Hindu: A History

Truschke

2023

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“… 75 See Gandhi (2020) for Persian works on Vedānta themes in the seventeenth century. See Faruqui (2014) for the Mughal prince Dara Shukoh's interests in the translations of Vedānta texts and the question of imperial succession.…”

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Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm

Rajpurohit

2022

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Centred on the ‘devotion to the ineffable divine’ (nirguṇ bhakti), the sectarian community known as the Dādū Panth (lit. ‘Dādū's path) had a class of sant-intellectuals who conceived their tradition on high literary and philosophical grounds. Succeeding on the local level, but aspiring to imperial ties, the intellectuals of the Dādū Panth not only built their community identity in relation to the Mughal-Rajput imperial milieu but also to the overlapping ideals of emerging sulh-i kull (universal peace) and Vedānta paradigms. Such expertise on the part of the Dādū Panthīs made their ties with the Marwar royal polity strong and long-lasting, as demonstrated in their hagiographical accounts which are corroborated by land grants by the kingdom. Later in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the imperial order was waning, the Dādū Panthīs expanded their networks in the Rajput courts of not only Rajasthan, but also Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh. The sants of the bhakti movement(s) are normally thought to have had a lower-caste base—and thus a subaltern voice—but the example of the Dādū Panth presented in this article demonstrates that sants’ social base was broad and that the interrelation of sant-bhakti with the courtly order was strong; sant-bhakti therefore needs to be rethought in the study of bhakti traditions.

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Vedānta: A Survey of Recent Scholarship (I)

Allen

2023

J Indian Philos

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The Persian Writings on Vedānta Attributed to Banwālīdās Walī

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Hindu: A History

Hindu: A History

Sulh-i kull to Vedānta: The Dādū Panth and the Mughal-Rajput imperial paradigm

Vedānta: A Survey of Recent Scholarship (I)

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