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Provincial Hinduism - Religion and Community in Gwalior City (Hardcover)
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Provincial Hinduism - Religion and Community in Gwalior City (Hardcover)
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Provincial Hinduism explores intersecting religious worlds in an
ordinary Indian city that remains close to its traditional roots,
while bearing witness to the impact of globalization. Daniel Gold
looks at modern religious life in Gwalior, in the state of Mahdya
Pradesh, drawing attention to the often complex religious
sensibilities behind ordinary Hindu practice. Turning his attention
to public places of worship, Gold describes temples of different
types in the city, their legendary histories, and the people who
patronize them. Issues of community and identity are discussed
throughout the book, but particularly in the context of caste and
class. Gold also explores concepts of community among Gwalior's
Maharashtrians and Sindhis, groups with roots in other parts of the
subcontinent that have settled in the city for generations.
Functioning as internal diasporas, they organize in different ways
and make distinctive contributions to local religious life. The
book concludes by exploring characteristically modern religious
institutions. Gold considers three religious service organizations
inspired by the nineteenth-century reformer Swami Vivekenanda, as
well as two groups that stem from the nineteenth-century Radhasoami
tradition but have developed in different ways: the very large and
populist North Indian movement around the late Baba Jaigurudev (d.
2012); and the devotees of Sant Kripal, a regional guru based in
Gwalior who has a much smaller, middle-class following. As the
first book to analyze religious life in an ordinary, midsized
Indian city, Provincial Hinduism will be an invaluable resource for
scholars of contemporary Indian religion, culture, and society.
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