This volume brings together eleven key essays that debate how the religious and worldly aims of religious movements in pre-modern South Asia have been linked and how their ideologies, social bases, and organizational structures both continued and changed over the course of time.

LORENZEN, DAVID N (EDITOR)

• General Editors' Preface


• Introduction


• Alvars and Nayanars


• Conversion to Islam


• Rama and the Muslims


• Kabir and the Sants


• Historical Overviews


• Index


• Notes on Contributors