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Untouchable pasts : religion, identity, and power among a central Indian community, 1780-1950 / Saurabh Dube

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Dube, Saurabh
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [1998]
Copyright Date
©1998
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 308 pages) : illustrations, map
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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.
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0585089892 (electronic bk.)
9780585089898 (electronic bk.)
079143687X
0791436888
9780791436875
9780791436882
1438401574
9781438401577
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and index.
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