The guru in South Asia : new interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame.

1. The multifarious guru : an introduction / Jacob Copeman and Aya Ikegame -- 2. The governing guru : Hindu mathas in liberalising India / Aya Ikegame -- 3. The slave guru : masters, commanders, and disciples in early modern South Asia / William R. Pinch -- 4. The political guru : the guru as eminence grise / Christophe Jaffrelot -- 5. The gay guru : fallibility, unworldliness, and the scene of instruction / Lawrence Cohen -- 6. The female guru : guru, gender, and the path of personal experience / Karen Pechilis -- 7. The dreamed guru : the entangled lives of the amil and the anthropologist / Veena Das -- 8. The mimetic guru : tracing the real in Sikh-Dera Sacha Sauda relations / Jacob Copeman -- 9. The mediated guru : simplicity, instantaneity and change in middle-class religious seeking / Kathinka FrØystad -- 10. The cosmopolitan guru : spiritual tourism and ashrams in Rishikesh / Meena Khandelwal -- 11. The literary guru : the dual emphasis on bhakti and vidhi in western Indian guru-devotion / Jeremy G. Morse -- 12. Continuities as gurus change / Daniel Gold.