Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148668
J. Bronkhorst
How did the belief in rebirth and karmic retribution come into existence? W. D. Whitney called it ‘one of the most difficult questions in the religious history of India’, and Richard Salomon described it, a century later, as ‘the single greatest problem of Indological studies’. Scholars have proposed textual continuities leading up to texts that give expression to this belief, but questions can be and have been raised about such continuities. Worse, these studies do not deal with the observation made by A. B. Keith almost a century ago, viz., that ‘while the ideas thus recorded are of some value … the importance of transmigration lies precisely in the fact that the doctrine is an ethical system’. The one scholar who fully recognises the importance of ethicisation is Gananath Obeyesekere. Unfortunately, his theory is based on some disputable assumptions, which weaken it, as they weaken Richard Seaford’s theory, which builds on Obeyesekere’s ideas. This article offers an altogether different approach that puts this belief in line with beliefs that accompanied the appearance of social complexity elsewhere in the world.
轮回和因果报应的信仰是如何产生的?w·d·惠特尼(W. D. Whitney)称之为“印度宗教史上最难的问题之一”，一个世纪后，理查德·所罗门(Richard Salomon)将其描述为“印度学研究中最大的问题”。学者们提出了文本的连续性，从而产生了表达这一信念的文本，但是这种连续性可以并且已经提出了问题。更糟糕的是，这些研究没有处理a . B. Keith近一个世纪前的观察，即“虽然这样记录的思想有一定的价值……转世的重要性恰恰在于教义是一种道德体系”。唯一一位充分认识到伦理化重要性的学者是加纳纳特·奥贝塞克雷。不幸的是，他的理论是建立在一些有争议的假设基础上的，这些假设削弱了他的理论，就像削弱了理查德·西福德的理论一样，西福德的理论建立在奥贝塞克雷的思想之上。本文提供了一种完全不同的方法，将这种信念与世界上其他地方伴随社会复杂性出现的信念相一致。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221148689
Raphael Susewind
Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. xii + 197 pp. Appendix, references, index. ₹795 (hardback—ISBN: 9781009158718)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221132586
Dhivya Janarthanan
The contiguity of the divine, the human, and the object is routinely noted in scholarship on South Asia. In this article, I re-examine this model of contiguity by focusing on the vandalism of what I term a caste-iconic statue in 2008 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and track the effects of this incident in a village and on its caste groups until 2015. Beyond contiguity, I here offer a relational approach to studying space, caste, and statues.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125855
Ozancan Bozkurt
Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power. New York: Routledge. xvi + 199 pp. Notes, references, index. $53.35 (eBook)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221132584
Tuhina Ganguly
Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals. In Hindu and neo-Hindu religious movements, the guru’s samadhi is one such important sacred space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on one Ashram in India and the importance of the Samadhi shrine in the life of its members. The article argues that the Samadhi constitutes the spatial heart of an otherwise spatially dispersed Ashram. It is at the Samadhi that the devotees become present to the gurus and one another, creating a community of devotees through both a linear ‘chain of memory’ and lateral ‘intimacy grids’. At the same time, the creation of such a community grapples with the wider locational specificities of the Ashram and the politics of making it a home.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125868
Malvika Sharma
Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 286 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. £75.00 (hardback)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125872
Shoma Choudhury Lahiri
Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment. Translated by M. B DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. viii + 176 pp. Notes, tables, illustrations, index. $29.95 (hardback - PDF read by book reviewer)
Lucas Chancel。2020年，《不可持续的不平等：社会正义与环境》。由M.B DeBevoise翻译。马萨诸塞州剑桥：哈佛大学出版社的贝尔克纳普出版社。viii+176页注释、表格、插图、索引$29.95（精装本-书评人阅读PDF）
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125770
Dikshya Karki
David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 540 pp. Maps, tables, figures, references, index. £51 (hardback)
David N. Gellner和Sondra L. Hausner编。2018. 全球尼泊尔人:新旧散居中的宗教、文化和社区。新德里:牛津大学出版社，540页。地图，表格，图表，参考文献，索引。£51(精装)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221132585
B. Sunil
This article discusses the formation and distinctive evolution of the Malayalee public sphere in Malabar from the second half of the 19th century. When the press was introduced, versions of Malayalam, such as Arabimalayalam, Suriyani-Malayalam, and Aryanezhuthu/modern-Malayalam, were seen to be associated with different communities. The varied community and religious orientations of Malayalam were reflected in the newly emerging Malayalee public sphere. The tensions that racked the public sphere on this count compelled the Mappila intelligentsia to turn to modern Malayalam in order to contest claims alluding to their criminality. It led to their withdrawal from Arabimalayalam which was the language of their community. The waning of Arabimalayalam had an impact on Mappila women annihilating the possibility of their voices being heard in the newly emergent public sphere.
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