<p></p><p>Chapter 1: The building of colonial knowledge and its aftermath.-From culture to episteme: Vernacular knowledge and the Sufi paradigm</p><p></p><p>Scope and objectives.-Part 1: Colonisation and the Shaping of Vernacular Knowledge.-Chapter 2: The set-up of the colonial knowledge on Sindh.-Introduction.-Knowledge and its agents in precolonial Sindh.-Sindhi as a distinct language.-The era of standardisation: Language and script.-Translating, printing, and the making of the Sindhi munshi.-Grammar and the dictionary.-Conclusion.-Chapter 3: The transmission of colonial knowledge.-Introduction.-The colonial knowledge of the society.-Education for transmitting colonial knowledge.-The formalisation of colonial knowledge through gazetteers.-Conclusion.-Chapter 4: Knowledge, Sufism, and the issue of a Vernacular literature.-Introduction.-Richard Burton, or the Orientalist Ethnographer.-Burton’s ethnography of Sindh and his principle of intercession.-Literatures as a “weapon in our hands”.-Conclusion .-Part 2: Social Mobility and The Makings of the Sufi Paradigm.-Chapter 5: the archaeology of the Sufi paradigm.-Introduction.-The printing of the Shah jo Risalo.-The Sufi paradigm and the issue of a Persian pattern.-The Sufi paradigm at its earliest stage.-Conclusion.-Chapter 6: Social mobility and the set-up of a Sufi paradigm.-Introduction.-The spread of the middle class and the issue of progress.-The intelligentsia and the objectification of the Shah jo Risalo.-Colonial Sufism as antiquity.-Conclusion.-Chapter 7: Sufi knowledge (ilm tasawuf), sufi culture, and the sufi paradigm.-Introduction.-Mirza Qalich Beg, or the Exemplary Sindhi Scholar.-Bibliography, lexicography, and the Sufi paradigm in Mirza Qalich Beg’s work.-Sufi Knowledge (Ilm Tasawuf) and the Sufi paradigm.-Jethmal Parsram Gulraj and the Sufi culture.-Conclusion.-Chapter 8: The deployment of the Sufi paradigm.-Introduction.-The Sufi paradigm beyond the Shah jo Risalo (or the second step of the SP).-The Sufi paradigm beyond Sufism and Islam (third step of the SP).-The Sufi paradigm beyond Sindh (fourth step of the SP).-New trends in early twentieth century knowledge: The spread of the qisso.-The Sufi paradigm and the printed knowledge market.-Conclusion.-Part 3: Challenging the Sufi Paradigm in the Era of Communalism.-chapter 9: The Sufi paradigm and the normative regimes of knowledge.-Introduction.-The codification of Islam and Hinduism: Sanatan dharma versus Umma.-Reformism and Universalism among the Hindus.-Sunni Reformism.-The Church Missionary Society.-The new conjuncture of the 1920s.-Conclusion.-Chapter 10: the Sufi paradigm and the devotional regimes of knowledge.-Introduction.-The attempt to create a Daryapanth.-The Hinduisation of the Nanakpanth.-The Shia regime of knowledge in the public sphere .-From Khoja to Ismaili: The Aga Khani regime of knowledge.-Conclusion.-Chapter 11: oral knowledge and the Sufi paradigm.-Introduction.-The figure of the bard.-Oral knowledge and the devotional corpus.-The bardic performance.-Conclusion.-Chapter 12: Conclusion: What is vernacular in the Sufi paradigm?.-Appendix.</p><p></p><p></p>
