Introduction: Hindu, Muslim, Identities, Identifications, Belongings and Rejection, Peter Gottschalk ( Wesleyan University, USA) Part I: Interactions 1. The Matiya Rebellion and Religious Categories in Early Modern Gujarat, Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University, USA) 2. Panipat Remembered: Before the Fort of Kalinjar, August 23 1803, William R. Pinch ( Wesleyan University, USA) 3. Minority Lessons: Education, Citizenship, and Religion in India, Parna Sengupta (Stanford University, USA) 4. Hindu-Muslim Relations and North India's Oldest Music Festival: The Harballabh Mela of Jalandhar, Radha Kapuria (University of Durham, UK) Part II: Interweavings 5. Account of a Journey from Vijayanagara to Golconda: On the Convergence of Sanskritic and Persianate Cultures in the Deccan, Philip Wagoner ( Wesleyan University, USA) 6. Urdu Literary Culture and a Shared Ethical Tradition in Late-Colonial India, Farina Mir (University of Michigan, USA) 7.

Resonant Pasts: Music, Memory, and Communalism in North India, Richard David Williams (SOAS University of London, UK) Part III: Interpellations 8. The Lamp of Wisdom: Similes and Shared Symbolic Spatiality in Western India, Sara Keller (University of Erfurt, Germany) 9. Marshalling Poets for the Nation: An Experiment in the Two Wings of Pakistan, 1947-1971, Rachel Fell McDermott (Columbia University, USA) Part VI: Divergences 10. The End of Persianate Hinduism, Carl Ernst (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 11. Cross-Cultural Friendships in a Partitioned Land: A Conversation, Amina Yaqin (University of Exeter, UK) 12. Romance and Religion: Hindu Women, Muslim Men and Recalcitrant Intimacies in Modern India, Charu Gupta (University of Delhi, India).