Sufism and liberation across the Indo-Afghan border: 1880–1928
@article{Caron2016SufismAL, title={Sufism and liberation across the Indo-Afghan border: 1880–1928}, author={James Caron}, journal={South Asian History and Culture}, year={2016}, volume={7}, pages={135 - 154} }
ABSTRACT How do we understand links between Sufism and pro-egalitarian revolutionary activism in the early twentieth century; and how did upland compositions of self and community help constitute revolutionary activism in South Asia more broadly? Using Pashto poetry as my archive, I integrate a history of radical egalitarian thought and political practice into a holistic study of self-making, of imperial spatiality, and of shifting gradients of power in the regions between Kabul and Punjab…
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