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Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule - A South Indian Case (Paperback)
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Worship and Conflict under Colonial Rule - A South Indian Case (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge South Asian Studies
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Although temples have been important in South Indian society and
history, there have been few attempts to study them within an
integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops
such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he
interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami
Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India. The author
uses the methods and concepts of both cultural anthropology and
social history to construct a model of institutional change in
South Asia under colonial rule. Focusing on the problem of
authority as a cultural concept and as a managerial reality,
Professor Appadurai considers some classic problems of South Asian
anthropology: problems of deference, sumptuary symbolism, and
religious organization. In addition, he addresses such issues as
the nature of conflict under a hybrid colonial legal system, the
political implications of sumptuary disputes, and the structure of
relations between polity and religion in pre-modern South Asia.
These aspects of the study should interest a broad range of
scholars.
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