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Ritual, caste, and religion in colonial south India /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Delhi:
Primus Books,
2010.
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| Series: | Neue Hallesche Berichte ;
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| Online Access: | http://books.google.co.in/books?id=wbISha_aGocC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false |
Table of Contents:
- Performing the revival: performance and performativity in a colonial discourse in South India / Andreas Nehring.
- Saiva Siddhanta as a universal religion: J.M. Nallasvami Pullai and Hinduism in colonial South India / Michael Bergunder.
- Forging a Tamil caste: Maraimalai Adigal and the discourse of caste and ritual in colonial Tamilnadu / Ravi Vaitheespara.
- Sustaining the pre-colonial past: Saiva defiance against Christian rule in the 19th century in Jaffna / Peter Schalk.
- No religion, but ritual? Robert Caldwell and the Tinnevelly Shanars / Ulrike Schröder.
- Landscapes of Christianity in colonial South India: the matter of Hindu ritual and Christian conversion, 1870-1920 / Mary E. Hancock.
- Witnessing fun: Tamil-speaking Muslims and the imagination of ritual in colonial Southeast Asia / Torsten Tschacher.
- The agraharam: the transformation of social space and Brahman status in Tamilnadu during the colonial and postcolonial periods / C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan.
- Vicissitudes of subaltern self-identification: a reading of Tamilan / Gnanasigamony Aloysius.
- 'More Kshatriya than thou!" Debating the caste and ritual ranking in colonial Tamilnadu / A.R. Venkatachalapathy.
- Soliloquizing Brahmans: Questions to a Telugu journal from the late 19th century / Heiko Frese.
- Anti-reform discourse in Andhra: cultural nationalism that failed / Vakulabharanam Rajagopal.
- Miltiple lives of a text: The Sumati śatakamu in colonial Andhra / Velcheru Narayana Rao.
- Appendices: T. Velayuda Mudaliar vs. N. Chidambaram Iyer on the message of Ramalinga Adigal.
- Sources on the contact between J.M. Nallasvami Pillai and Vivekananda.