On Hearing the Transliteration
Introduction
Part I: A City in History with Temples and Shrines
1. Temples in the City
2. Sufi Shrines for Hindu Devotees
Part II: Community and Identity
3. Living Together in a Working-Class Neighborhood: Caste, Class,
and Personal Affinities
4. Ethnic Communities and Regional Hinduisms: Maharashtrian and
Sindhi
Part III: Institutions and Personalities
5. Hindu Ways of Organized Service: Legacies of Swami
Vivekananda
6. Gurus, Disciples, and Ashrams: Beyond Radhasoami
Afterword: Personal Religious Identity in a Pluralist Society
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Daniel Gold grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UC Berkeley in 1968. After several years in India, mostly as a Peace Corps Volunteer, he did graduate work at the University of Chicago and has taught at Vassar, Oberlin, Stanford, and Cornell, where he is now Professor of South Asian Religions. He is married to the anthropologist Ann Grodzins Gold.
"Lucid and accessible, this important book on religion in Gwalior
makes a major contribution to the study of urban religion. Daniel
Gold's long history of academic and personal engagement with
religious people, shrines, and organizations in this city, with its
historically important migrations and diverse religious identities,
is, quite simply, stellar. Gold's lively style and careful
definition of terms renders this work inviting to undergraduates as
well as
graduate and postgraduate scholars. It is sure to be helpful to and
heralded by scholars of religion, anthropology, sociology, and
history."
--Lindsey Harlan, Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut
College
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