Talk on "Historically speaking: On the Sacred Geography of Hindustan" by Prof. Raziuddin Aqil
Schedule
Wed, 27 Aug, 2025 at 03:30 pm
UTC+05:30Location
Faculty Of Social Science | New Delhi, DL
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The Seminar Committee, Department of History invites you all to a talk on “Historically Speaking: On the Sacred Geography of Hindustan” by Raziuddin AquilDetails:
Date - 27 August 2025
Time - 3.30 pm onwards
Venue - Room 6, Satyakam Bhawan, near Social Sciences building
This lecture will focus on the speaker’s two recent book projects which are aimed at a detailed discussion of religious practices in medieval and early modern India. The presence of powerful spiritual masters and the political domain seeking to exploit religious symbols are enduring features of India’s history. Critical negotiations in premodern religious interactions and occasional tensions and violence as well as political resolution of crucial issues around questions of identities have become hot topics in modern times. History has, thus, become hostage to modern ideological wrangling and identity contestations. In such contexts, it is important that historians intervene for a more informed kind of discussion of what happened in the past even when some aspects of the past appear problematic from the point of view of peaceful community relations in the present. The talk will address some of these concerns.
About the Speaker
Raziuddin Aquil is Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. His research and teaching interests encompass religious traditions, literary practices, and political cultures in medieval and early modern India.
His latest work Itihasnama: Hindustan ke Pavitra Bhugol ka Sanskritik-Aitihasik Pariprekshya was recently published by Manohar. Some of his other works include Sufism, Culture, and Politics: Afghans and Islam in Medieval North India (Oxford University Press); The Muslim Question: Understanding Islam in Indian History (Penguin Books); and Days in the Life of a Sufi: 101 Enchanting Stories of Wisdom (Pan Macmillan). He has also co-edited the History in the Vernacular (Permanent Black) with Professor Partha Chatterjee; Literary and Religious Practices in Medieval and Early Modern India (Manohar and Routledge) with Professor David L. Curley; and An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal (Manohar and Routledge) with Dr Tilottama Mukherjee.
Regards,
Seminar Committee
Department of History
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