His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. It will also work as a particularly enjoyable text to teach in undergraduate and graduate courses. Operating at the intersection of Islamic Studies, South Asian Studies, and Empire Studies, this eminently accessible book is sure to spark interest and discussion among scholars in these and other fields. Alternating between social and political history, and close readings of a range of religious texts, this book not only thoroughly complicates our conception of Dara Shukoh, but also presents an intimate view of the political and family life of the Mughal elite. Written with exceptional clarity and in dazzling narrative form, this book marshals overwhelming evidence to disrupt the popular and common view that sees Dara Shukoh as either an absolute interfaith inclusivist or a failed political aspirant to the Mughal throne. 1659), and of his broader political and social milieu. In her magnificent and lyrical new book, The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India (Harvard UP, 2020), Supriya Gandhi reorients and adds unprecedented depth to our understanding of the much memorialized but less understood Mughal prince and thinker Dara Shukoh (d.
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Later in life she was an associate editor of Hearth and Home, edited by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dodge then wrote Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, which became an instant bestseller. Within a few years she had great success with a collection of short stories, The Irvington Stories (1864), and a novel was solicited. In 1859 she began writing and editing, working with her father to publish two magazines, the Working Farmer and the United States Journal. A month after his disappearance his body was found dead from an apparent drowning, and Mary Mapes Dodge became a widow. In 1857, William faced serious financial difficulties and left his family in 1858. Within the next four years she gave birth to two sons, James and Harrington. In 1851 she married the lawyer William Dodge. She acquired a good education under private tutors. James Jay Mapes and Sophia Furman in New York City. Mary was born Mary Elizabeth Mapes to Prof. |