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The Maulana Who Loved Krishna
This article reproduces, with English translations, the devotional poems written to the god Krishna by a maulana who was an active participant in the cultural, political and theological life of late colonial north India. Through this, the article gives a glimpse of an Islamicate literary and spiritual world which revelled in syncretism with its surrounding Hindu worlds; and which is under threat of obliteration, even as a memory, in the singular world of globalised Islam of the 21st century.
A much shorter version was published at Outlookindia.com on 12 January 2012, and also presented as the 24th Zakir Husain Memorial Lecture in March 2012 at the Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
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