Spaces and Places in Western India

Bina Sengar is an Assistant Professor in Department of History and Ancient Indian Culture, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad, and was a Fulbright Fellow for the year 2018–2019 at Florida International University, Miami. She has published on various themes related to state policy and tribal studies in India. Her recent articles on tribal communities in Western India are: ‘Policies for Ethnic Communities’ Assimilation in India: A Gandhian Perspective’ (2018), ‘Trade Routes and Commercial Networks in Deccan-Marathwada during Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries’ (2017) and ‘Prospects for Sustainability in Human–Environment Patterns: Dynamic Management of Common Resources’ (2017).Laurie Hovell McMillin is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College, USA. An interest in the construction of place animates her work: English in Tibet, Tibet in English: Self-Presentation in Tibet and the Diaspora (2001) and Buried Indians: Digging up the Past in a Midwestern Town (2006). More recently, her travel writing has appeared in The Lonely Planet Travel Anthology (2016), Travel Writing: Theory and Practice (2013) and in other publications. She has researched and travelled in Maharashtra for many years.

• PART I Urban, rural and indigenous spaces in Maharashtrian politics and environment 1 The aftermath of placeless space: mapped, delimited, bifurcated, merged: a phenomenon of Dewas S. and Dewas J. 2 The spatial analysis of the transition of the land revenue system in Western India (1761–1836), with special reference to Indapur Pargana 3 Creating spaces for indigeneity from Nizam’s Hyderabad state to Maharashtra 4 Internet as an emancipatory space: case study of Dalits in Maharashtra PART II Constructing space and place: material culture and public spaces 5 Place, space and money in Maharashtra, c. 1750–1850: some insights 6 Architectural continuity across political ruptures: early Marathas and the Deccan sultanates 7 Blurred lines: historical knowledge and the politics of statues 8 Karle/Ekvira: many places over time, and at once PART III Religious spaces and places in Western India 9 The significance of place in early Mahānubhāv literature 10 Seven Sufi brothers: dargah vernacular narratives and Konkani Sufi-Muslims 11 Emplacing holiness: the local religiosity between Vaishnavas, Sufis and demons 12 Dakhani Sikh identity and the religious space(s) in Nanded (Maharashtra)