Religion, caste, and nation in South India : Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite movement, and Tamil nationalism, 1876-1950 / V. Ravi Vaithees.
- Title
- Religion, caste, and nation in South India : Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite movement, and Tamil nationalism, 1876-1950 / V. Ravi Vaithees.
- Published by
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Author
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- Description
- xv, 347 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm
- Summary
- Departing sharply from the principal focus on language and the 'secular-modern' in contemporary nationalism studies, this volume examines the religious roots of nationalism, specifically the religious roots of non-Brahmin Tamil nationalism and the Dravidian movement in India. The book argues that it was the anti-Aryan, anti-Sanskritic imperatives and spirit of the neo-Saivite movement that came to inform and animate the neo-Saivite readings of the Tamil and Indian past and indeed the articulation of neo-Saivism as a form of non-Brahmin Tamil nationalism.
- Uniform title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Maṟaimalaiyaṭikaḷ, 1876-1950
- Maṟaimalaiyaṭikaḷ, is Cuvāmi Vētācalam, 1876-1950
- Nyakar, Somasundara, 1846-1901
- Mar̲aimalaiyaṭikaḷ, 1876-1950
- 1800 - 1999
- Religion and politics > India, South > History > 19th century
- Religion and politics > India, South > History > 20th century
- Śaivism
- Tamilen
- Ethnizität
- Nationalismus
- Gruppenidentität
- Hinduismus
- Reformbewegung
- Religiöser Wandel
- Schaiwasiddhanta
- Sozialgeschichte
- Politics and government
- Religion and politics
- Śaivism
- Tamil Nadu (India) > Politics and government
- Indien
- Tamil Nadu
- Zuid-India
- South India
- India > Tamil Nadu
- Genre/Form
- History
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-335) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain