Dara Shukuh Captive Visionary of His Times

by Rakesh Gupta

Overview

This book deals with the times, life and works of Dara Shukuh as a Sufi scholar and a military man subsumed under Akhlalq working for social cohesion within Akbar's dominant state ideology. His effort at raptures produced biographies, translations of the Upani shads, quatrains, calligraphy, architecture, astronomy and painting album. The book dcalswithhislovcs, travails, turbulence and heinous martyrdom owing to his vision and constrains of the times he lived in. This crystal tower was brought to dust owing to treachery, limitcdvisionofhis orthodox and ambitious co-brothers. He became a path blaxr within the paradigm of the seventeenth century anticipating Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ravindra Nath Tagorc, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawahar Lai Nehru, by challenging orthodoxy. The book contcxtuaUses him in the times as part of the opposition between orthodoxy and heterodoxy around the grid of equality of religions and not priority of a religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789351289982
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	236
File size:	312 KB

About the Author

Dr. RakcshGupta(b. 1946) retired as a Professor from (Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University alter thirty year- and at Motllal Nehru (College, DU (II years), Executive Editor of Mainstream, a Junior Kcllow, ICHR and Senior Kcllow ICSSR attached to the IDSA, Visiting Professor IIT, (iuwahati (2014), Visiting Kcllow to Central University, Hyderabad (2015). Publications: Bihar Peasantry and Kisan Sabha Stale in India. Pakistan. Russia andCentral Asia. Terrorismand Commimaiism and other Threats to Indian Security. Use of Metaphors by Jawaharlal Nehru. Soviet Policies in the 1980s. Political Stability and Civil-Military Relations under (hrbachev. Polisario. Militarisation of Outer Space: A Case Study of US Policy. edited AW/: Aims. Implications and Responses. Indian Security in the twenty first century, co-authored. Pakistan and The Nuclear Bomb. Novella Raziyya Sultan and poetry collections. i.e. Frozen Moments and Rouge