Untouchable Saints

Author : Eleanor Zelliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untouchable Saints written by Eleanor Zelliot and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Brings To Light The Phenomenon Of Religious Voices From The Lowest Orders Of Indian Society: Nandanar And Tirupan Alvar In The South; Chokhamela And His Entire Family In Marathi Territory; And, Most Famous Of All, Ravidas In The North. Each Saint Was Born Untouchable And That Fact Is Essential Part Of His And Her Life And Song. The Mixture Of Bhakti Texts And Contemporary Comment Results In An Unusual And Lively Discussion Of An Important Facet Of Indian Religious Life.

Author : Shyamlal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untouchable Saints of India written by Shyamlal and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Presents A Composite Picture Of The Genesis And Development Of Various Untouchable Saints Of Rajasthan And Their Role In The Uplifting Of The Down Trodden.

Author : Joshua Samuel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004420053
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation written by Joshua Samuel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.

Author : Gil Ben-Herut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878843
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Śiva's Saints written by Gil Ben-Herut and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book takes a pioneering approach to understanding the origins of the Vīrasaiva / Lingāyata tradition by considering for the first time in English-language scholarship a major collection of hagiographies about the twelfth-century devotees, which was produced very soon after their purported activities. The tradition, which developed over the last eight centuries in the Kannada-speaking region of the Deccan plateau in India, holds a unique place in Hindu society. Its members do not adhere to the hierarchical structures of Brahminical-centered society, and they practice a distinct set of rituals, such as carrying a personal linga (an emblem of the Hindu god Siva) on their body and worshiping it individually (as well as in groups), burying and not cremating their dead, and more"--

Author : Lele
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004477969
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Modernity in Bhakti Movements written by Lele and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mikael Aktor
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763507757
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Stigma to Assertion written by Mikael Aktor and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles, written by distinguished scholars in the field, addresses these and other important pre-and post-independence developments impinging on the notion of Untouchability and the Hindu caste system. By putting these developments in a wider temporal perspective-covering pre-colonial textual material as well as recent debates over the rights and identity of the Untouchables - this volume can be seen as a significant contribution to an understanding of why caste continues to play an important role in contemporary India. --Book Jacket.

Author : Meenakshi Jha
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120842995
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subaltern Saints in India written by Meenakshi Jha and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present era of complexity, anxiety and moral turpitude is in need of spiritual solace and God's grace more than ever before. The established frameworks of religion have not entirely been successful in streamlining the rapport between the maker and the creation. The emergence and progression of bhakti saints is a significant power in this direction. Living exemplary, realised lives on their own terms mostly in opposition to the given frame of life, the bhakti saints heralded a new possibility of the egalitarian order without any bigotry or dogmatism. The book undertakes a probe into the specific contributions made by two hitherto neglected sections of the Indian society, namely women and Sudras. The precepts and lives of these subaltern saints reiterate the possibility of personal salvation and social regeneration, having transformative potential for breaking the barriers of iniquitous, hierarchical structures.

Author : Michael Moffatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400870364
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Untouchable Community in South India written by Michael Moffatt and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the system, they seldom question the system as a whole, and they maintain among themselves a set of hierarchical conceptions and institutions virtually identical to those of the dominant social order. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork with Untouchable castes in two villages in Tamil Nadu, south India, Professor Moffatt's analysis specifies ways in which the Untouchables are both excluded and included by the higher castes. Ethnographically, he pursues his structural analysis in two related domains: Untouchable social structure, and Untouchable religious belief and practice. The author finds that in those aspects of their lives where Untouchables are excluded from larger village life, they replicate in their own community nearly every institution, role, and ranked relation from which they have been excluded. Where the Untouchables are included by the higher castes, they complete the hierarchical whole by accepting their low position and playing their assigned roles. Thus the most oppressed members of Indian society are often among the truest believers in the system. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : G.A. Natesan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Review written by G.A. Natesan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.M. Shah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136197702
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Indian Society written by A.M. Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material. The book focuses on the significance of village studies in transforming the understanding of Indian society and also shows how urban centres have been useful in shaping society. Taking a critical look at the prevailing thinking on various structures and institutions, the author uses insights derived from his comprehensive studies of kinship, marriage, religion, and grassroots politics in advancing their studies. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of these structures and institutions and the direction in which they are changing with respect to modern time. As against the overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchical dimension of caste, this book focuses on its horizontal dimension, that is, every caste’s population spread over villages and towns in an area, its internal organization and differentiation based on networks of kinship, marriage, patron-client relationship, and role of endogamy versus hypergamy in maintaining its boundaries. The tribes are also seen in the same perspective, emphasizing the tribe-caste homology. Finally, the book provides information on important issues like policy of reservations, the reliability of censuses and surveys of castes and tribes, removal of untouchability, growth of organized religion and secularization.