In the United States, the phrase Indian Wars conjures a specific set of images: the Battle of Little Bighorn, the massacres at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek, the forced marches of the Trail of Tears, the decades-long manhunt for Geronimo. All of it is generally remembered as a 19th-century story, closed out by the early […]

Fakir is a term of Arabic origin that can be translated as “poor” and originally referred to a Muslim holy man, a Sufi saint, although since the Mughal Era it has also been applied to Hindu sadhus or ascetics, generally destitute wanderers who mortify their bodies as an act of penance in order to renounce […]