TY - GEN AU - Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati TI - Narrative pasts : the making of a Muslim community in Gujarat, c. 1400-1650 SN - 9780190123994 U1 - 954.75025 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - India--Bagh KW - India--Gujarat KW - Muslims KW - Historiography N1 - Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Note on Transliteration xvii Introduction 1 1 From Inscriptions to Texts: Locating the History of Muslim Migration and Settlement 35 2 State, Settlement, Texts: The Beginnings of Community and History Making in Gujarat 63 3 Texts and Tombs: The Creation of a Sacral Geography 95 4 Networks of Community Formation 129 5 Seventeenth-Century Historiographical Resolutions: Ahmad Khattu and the Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sad Hikayat 164 Conclusion 192 Appendix: Shaykh Ahmad Khattu and His Suhrawardi Contemporaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Tazkirat 199 Bibliography 205 Index 219 About the Author 227 About the Author 227 ER -