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Burning the Dead - Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (Hardcover)
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Burning the Dead - Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition (Hardcover)
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Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the
South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and
affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu
cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed
and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense
Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian
adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu
cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a
primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late
nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official
recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around
the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public
presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its
increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with
Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.
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