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Author Dube, Saurabh

Title Untouchable pasts : religion, identity, and power among a central Indian community, 1780-1950 / Saurabh Dube
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations, map
Series SUNY series in Hindu studies
SUNY series in Hindu studies.
Contents Chapter 2 The Making of Satnampanth, 1780-1850 25 -- Chapter 3 Malguzars, Gurus, and Missionaries, 1850-1900 47 -- Chapter 4 Satnamis in Village Life, 1900-1950 79 -- Chapter 5 A Contested Past: The Myths of Satnampanth 115 -- Chapter 6 Reform and Authority: The Satnami Mahasabha, 1925-1950 145 -- Chapter 7 Contending Histories: Old Stories and New Pasts 183 -- Appendix 1 Genealogy of Satnami Gurus, Four Generations 223 -- Appendix 2 Population of Satnamis, 1901-1931 224
Summary Untouchable Pasts constructs a history of an untouchable and heretical community over the last two hundred years. The Satnamis of Central India have combined the features of a caste and a sect to question and challenge the tenor of ritual power that variously defines Hinduism. At the same time, within the community, schemes of meaning and power, particularly those centering on gender, have been imbued with ambiguity and a reproduction of forms of inequality. The book presents an interpretive account of Satnami endeavors, encounters, and experiences by combining history and anthropology, archival and field work. It addresses a clutch of theoretical questions and a range of key and inextricably bound analytical relationships in an accessible manner. Issues of caste and untouchability, sect and kinship, myths and pasts are rendered here as part of a wider dynamic between religion and power, gender and community, writing and the constitution of traditions, ritual and the making of modernities, and orality and the construction of histories
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index
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Subject Satnāmīs -- India -- Chhattīsgarh -- History
HISTORY.
Economic history
Satnāmīs
Social conditions
Satnamis
Ethnische Identität
Religion
Kastenstelsel.
Onaanraakbaren.
Chhattīsgarh (India) -- Social conditions
Chhattīsgarh (India) -- Economic conditions
Chhattīsgarh (India) -- Religious life and customs
India -- Chhattīsgarh
Indien
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97049929
ISBN 0585089892
9780585089898
1438401574
9781438401577