The Sufi Paradigm and the Makings of a Vernacular Knowledge in Colonial India

Chapter 1: The building of colonial knowledge and its aftermath
From culture to episteme: Vernacular knowledge and the Sufi paradigm
Scope and objectives
Part 1: Colonisation and the Shaping of Vernacular Knowledge
Chapter 2: The set-up of the colonial knowledge on Sindh
Introduction
Knowledge and its agents in precolonial Sindh
Sindhi as a distinct language
The era of standardisation: Language and script
Translating, printing, and the making of the Sindhi munshi
Grammar and the dictionary
Conclusion
Chapter 3: The transmission of colonial knowledge
Introduction
The colonial knowledge of the society
Education for transmitting colonial knowledge
The formalisation of colonial knowledge through gazetteers
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Knowledge, Sufism, and the issue of a Vernacular literature
Introduction
Richard Burton, or the Orientalist Ethnographer
Burton''s ethnography of Sindh and his principle of intercession
Literatures as a "weapon in our hands"
Conclusion
Part 2: Social Mobility and The Makings of the Sufi Paradigm
Chapter 5: the archaeology of the Sufi paradigm
Introduction
The printing of the Shah jo Risalo
The Sufi paradigm and the issue of a Persian pattern
The Sufi paradigm at its earliest stage
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Social mobility and the set-up of a Sufi paradigm
Introduction
The spread of the middle class and the issue of progress
The intelligentsia and the objectification of the Shah jo Risalo
Colonial Sufism as antiquity
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Sufi knowledge (ilm tasawuf), sufi culture, and the sufi paradigm
Introduction
Mirza Qalich Beg, or the Exemplary Sindhi Scholar
Bibliography, lexicography, and the Sufi paradigm in Mirza Qalich Beg''s work
Sufi Knowledge (Ilm Tasawuf) and the Sufi paradigm
Jethmal Parsram Gulraj and the Sufi culture
Conclusion

Chapter 8: The deployment of the Sufi paradigm
Introduction
The Sufi paradigm beyond the Shah jo Risalo (or the second step of the SP)
The Sufi paradigm beyond Sufism and Islam (third step of the SP)
The Sufi paradigm beyond Sindh (fourth step of the SP)
New trends in early twentieth century knowledge: The spread of the qisso
The Sufi paradigm and the printed knowledge market
Conclusion
Part 3: Challenging the Sufi Paradigm in the Era of Communalism
chapter 9: The Sufi paradigm and the normative regimes of knowledge
Introduction
The codification of Islam and Hinduism: Sanatan dharma versus Umma
Reformism and Universalism among the Hindus
Sunni Reformism
The Church Missionary Society
The new conjuncture of the 1920s
Conclusion
Chapter 10: the Sufi paradigm and the devotional regimes of knowledge
Introduction
The attempt to create a Daryapanth
The Hinduisation of the Nanakpanth
The Shia regime of knowledge in the public sphere
From Khoja to Ismaili: The Aga Khani regime of knowledge
Conclusion
Chapter 11: oral knowledge and the Sufi paradigm
Introduction
The figure of the bard
Oral knowledge and the devotional corpus
The bardic performance
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Conclusion: What is vernacular in the Sufi paradigm?

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