Malavika Kasturi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malavika Kasturi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malavika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kasturi |
| SIGNATURE | KASTURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pīr Ratannāth in Devī Pātan
Through my case study of Devī Pātan, a Śāktīpītha Nāthyogī maṭh and temple on the India–Nepal border subordinate to the Gorakhnāth maṭh, my article demonstrates that Nāthyogī monastic networks are produced through spatial practices. Specifically, it focuses on shrines connected with Pīr Ratannāth, also known as Hājjīrattan, a legendary yogī of the Nāth sampradāy, widely worshipped across religious boundaries, who is said to have built Devī Pātan.…
Gurusand Gifting
From the early twentieth century, Hindu socio-religious and political bodies debated the use thatmaths(monastic establishments) made of their wealth, amassed in large part throughdana(socio religious gifts). From the early nineteenth century, Anglo Hindu law on inheritance, and thereafter the Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts, had enabled the autonomy ofmathsby classifying them as private religious corporations, not charitable endowments. …
‘This Land is Mine’
This chapter examines how civil courts and law in late colonial North India regulated disputes on property belonging to monastic orders. Anglo-Hindu law more broadly, and the Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts in particular, treated land and wealth belonging to ascetic orders, their maṭhs and akharas as ‘non-secular’ and subject to different proprietary rules and claims. The chapter examines civil cases brought against mahants in their capa…
All gifting is sacred
This article examines the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement’s engagement with socio-religious charitable gifting practices, or dana, between 1915 and 1940. In late colonial India, elite donors used the language and forms of dana to rework relationships of patronage, reinforce power hierarchies and transform the moral fibre of different ‘publics’. Reformist orthodox Hindu socio-religious organisations affiliated to the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement …
Asceticising' Monastic Families
This paper examines a fundamental premise of Anglo-Hindu law on succession between 1860 and 1940, that kinship was emblematic of secular modes of living, to analyse its implications for the assertion of masculinity within ascetic orders in northern India. Legal discourses engaged with rights to succession within ascetic orders, by functioning on the assumption that the renunciatory life of ascetics was antithetical to sexuality and domesticity. T…
Unfamiliar Relations
This thought‐provoking collection of essays traces the reproduction of the family through time, adding to recent scholarship reevaluating kinship and gender in South Asian history. The volume's particular strengths lie in the questions it raises about the longue durée history of family, and in highlighting the manifold ways in which kinship was constructed in cultural codes, genealogies, languages, and other discursive and material power structur…
Female Infanticide
In India, one example of gender discrimination is female infanticide or the consistent elimination of girl children aged 1-3 years in communities such as the Kallars of Tamil Nadu and the Rajputs of northern India. This paper examines the 19th century documents containing official discussions and debates on the subject of female infanticide, specifically the letters consisting of selections from the records of the Judicial Infanticide Department …
Rajput Lineages, Banditry and the Colonial State in Nineteenth-Century 'British' Bundelkhand
Law and Crime in India
Unfamiliar Relations
This thought‐provoking collection of essays traces the reproduction of the family through time, adding to recent scholarship reevaluating kinship and gender in South Asian history. The volume's particular strengths lie in the questions it raises about the longue durée history of family, and in highlighting the manifold ways in which kinship was constructed in cultural codes, genealogies, languages, and other discursive and material power structur…
All gifting is sacred
This article examines the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement’s engagement with socio-religious charitable gifting practices, or dana, between 1915 and 1940. In late colonial India, elite donors used the language and forms of dana to rework relationships of patronage, reinforce power hierarchies and transform the moral fibre of different ‘publics’. Reformist orthodox Hindu socio-religious organisations affiliated to the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement …
Asceticising' Monastic Families
This paper examines a fundamental premise of Anglo-Hindu law on succession between 1860 and 1940, that kinship was emblematic of secular modes of living, to analyse its implications for the assertion of masculinity within ascetic orders in northern India. Legal discourses engaged with rights to succession within ascetic orders, by functioning on the assumption that the renunciatory life of ascetics was antithetical to sexuality and domesticity. T…
Law and Crime in India
Gurusand Gifting
From the early twentieth century, Hindu socio-religious and political bodies debated the use thatmaths(monastic establishments) made of their wealth, amassed in large part throughdana(socio religious gifts). From the early nineteenth century, Anglo Hindu law on inheritance, and thereafter the Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts, had enabled the autonomy ofmathsby classifying them as private religious corporations, not charitable endowments. …
Rajput Lineages, Banditry and the Colonial State in Nineteenth-Century 'British' Bundelkhand
Law and Crime in India
Rajput Lineages, Banditry and the Colonial State in Nineteenth-Century 'British' Bundelkhand
Female Infanticide
In India, one example of gender discrimination is female infanticide or the consistent elimination of girl children aged 1-3 years in communities such as the Kallars of Tamil Nadu and the Rajputs of northern India. This paper examines the 19th century documents containing official discussions and debates on the subject of female infanticide, specifically the letters consisting of selections from the records of the Judicial Infanticide Department …
Unfamiliar Relations
This thought‐provoking collection of essays traces the reproduction of the family through time, adding to recent scholarship reevaluating kinship and gender in South Asian history. The volume's particular strengths lie in the questions it raises about the longue durée history of family, and in highlighting the manifold ways in which kinship was constructed in cultural codes, genealogies, languages, and other discursive and material power structur…
Asceticising' Monastic Families
This paper examines a fundamental premise of Anglo-Hindu law on succession between 1860 and 1940, that kinship was emblematic of secular modes of living, to analyse its implications for the assertion of masculinity within ascetic orders in northern India. Legal discourses engaged with rights to succession within ascetic orders, by functioning on the assumption that the renunciatory life of ascetics was antithetical to sexuality and domesticity. T…
All gifting is sacred
This article examines the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement’s engagement with socio-religious charitable gifting practices, or dana, between 1915 and 1940. In late colonial India, elite donors used the language and forms of dana to rework relationships of patronage, reinforce power hierarchies and transform the moral fibre of different ‘publics’. Reformist orthodox Hindu socio-religious organisations affiliated to the Sanatana Dharma Sabha movement …
‘This Land is Mine’
This chapter examines how civil courts and law in late colonial North India regulated disputes on property belonging to monastic orders. Anglo-Hindu law more broadly, and the Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts in particular, treated land and wealth belonging to ascetic orders, their maṭhs and akharas as ‘non-secular’ and subject to different proprietary rules and claims. The chapter examines civil cases brought against mahants in their capa…
Gurusand Gifting
From the early twentieth century, Hindu socio-religious and political bodies debated the use thatmaths(monastic establishments) made of their wealth, amassed in large part throughdana(socio religious gifts). From the early nineteenth century, Anglo Hindu law on inheritance, and thereafter the Religious and Charitable Endowments Acts, had enabled the autonomy ofmathsby classifying them as private religious corporations, not charitable endowments. …
Pīr Ratannāth in Devī Pātan
Through my case study of Devī Pātan, a Śāktīpītha Nāthyogī maṭh and temple on the India–Nepal border subordinate to the Gorakhnāth maṭh, my article demonstrates that Nāthyogī monastic networks are produced through spatial practices. Specifically, it focuses on shrines connected with Pīr Ratannāth, also known as Hājjīrattan, a legendary yogī of the Nāth sampradāy, widely worshipped across religious boundaries, who is said to have built Devī Pātan.…
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