Suchergebnisse

The despised castes : North-East India in Buddha's time / Richard Fick -- Slavery in ancient India : as depicted in Pāli and Sanskrit texts / Dev Raj Chanana -- Evolution of untouchability in Tamil Nadu up to AD 1600 / K.R. Hanumanthan -- Caṇḍāla and the origin of untouchability / Vivekananda Jha -- Women, men, and beasts : the Jatakas as popular tradition / Uma Chakravarti -- Chokhamela and Eknath : two bhakti modes of legitimacy for modern change / Eleanor Zelliot -- "Foreigner" and "tribe" as barbarian (mleccha) in early North India / Aloka Parasher-Sen -- Is there a Tamil race? / Dagmar Hellman-Rajanayagam -- The tyranny of labels / Romila Thapar -- Representing the other? Sanskrit sources and the Muslims / Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya -- Vaiṣṇava perceptions of Muslims in sixteenth-century Bengal / J.T. O'Connell

Through a series of case studies taken from everyday experiences of people following a variety of religions, this book interrogates the supposed epistemological dualism between modernity and religion in India. Through a study of oral and textual traditions, examining the perspectives of women and other marginal social and regional groups, as well as the diaspora, it presents dynamically interacting textures of society-historically and in our contemporary times-engaging with modernity in divergent ways