Familiar rāgas for unfamiliar audiences
Unexplored Sources and Uncharted Territories Lecture Series
In this lecture, Dr Ayesha Sheth examines the rāgamāla manuscript tradition across Jain and Islamicate communities in early modern South Asia. She explains how the development of the rāgamāla form simplified musical theory and supported the wider transmission of rāga-based knowledge.
In conversation, Dr Sheth and Dr William Rees Hofmann discuss how Jain, Sufi, and Ismāʿīlī devotional settings became shared spaces of musical exchange and how these traditions moved across intellectual networks and communities of practice.
Unexplored Sources and Uncharted Territories
The South Asian Studies Unit at The Institute of Ismaili Studies launched a lecture series entitled Unexplored Sources and Uncharted Territories in 2023. Under this series, we invite scholars who have identified manuscripts that have hitherto remained unexplored or used unconventional sources (e.g. family recipe books) to reconstruct the history or explore the territories that have not been studied before.
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