The morning’s emails rolled into my inbox, one with the shocking news of the passing of Dominque Sila Khan, one of the most talented scholars of religion in South Asia. I had first met Dominique in the early 1990s at a conference on Rajasthan and was hugely impressed with the dynamic energy of her paper and presentation. She was then unravelling the hidden and secret identities of Ismaili missionary-saints in Western India…
Dominique was part of a small group of scholars working on the shared and overlapping cultures of Hindus and Muslims in the subcontinent.
Read more at the source: thewire.in/75233/dominique-sila-khan
Feature on Dominique Sila Khan’s last book ‘Sacred Kerala.’
IIS’s Crossing the Threshold: Understanding Religious Identities in South Asia
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