P Pratap Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 19854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Pratap Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | P Pratap |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR P P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Victor Mallet, River of Life, River of Death
Victor Mallet, River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xxi + 316 pp., £20, ISBN: 978-0-19-878617-7
Endogenous time preferences of forest goods and community-based forest management
Grey Street Casbah
In this paper, I wish to explore the life in the mid-19th to 20th century in the Durban-based Indian Casbah and its enduring legacy. In exploring the Casbah life in Durban, I wish to pay special attention to the narratives of the people who either were associated with it and had living memories of it, or remember the many stories passed on to them by their families.1 The central question that I explore in analysing these narratives is: does Casba…
Revealed social preferences and joint forest management outcomes
Transgression and power
In the paper, I first recount the inner world of Ayya in order to show the implicit presence of the two critical strategies, namely transgression and power within the ‘habitus’ he constructs. I then attempt to tease out the two critical concepts that I have deployed to unpack the workings of Ayya's worldview. The conclusions that I have arrived at are not to be seen as broad generalizations beyond the scope of this paper, but rather an indication…
Resistance and Change
Virtually all neo-Hindu movements in South Africa began their work with an ideal to transform Hinduism from what they termed as superstitious beliefs and archaic ritual practices. What they were really responding to was the fear of losing Hindus to either Christianity or Islam. Their diagnosis was that the Hindus that came from the lower strata of society to South Africa from 1860 as indentured labourers were steeped in ritual practices that were…
Resistance and Change
Virtually all neo-Hindu movements in South Africa began their work with an ideal to transform Hinduism from what they termed as superstitious beliefs and archaic ritual practices. What they were really responding to was the fear of losing Hindus to either Christianity or Islam. Their diagnosis was that the Hindus that came from the lower strata of society to South Africa from 1860 as indentured labourers were steeped in ritual practices that were…
City of 201 Gods
Place of subcaste ( jati ) identity in the discourse on caste
Caste as a social phenomenon has undergone many changes. The most important operative unit that has exemplified caste in its discourse is subcaste (jati) identity. Both within India and certainly in the diaspora, there is now increasing evidence of the dissolution of subcaste (jati) identities giving rise to various other formations of groups replacing the endogamous relationships with other arbitrary group formations. In this article, I examine …
Food Restrictions and their Impact on South African Hindu Society with Special reference to the Hare Krishna Movement in Chatsworth
Introducing Hinduism
Religious Pluralism and Religion Education in South Africa
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Also available online – www.brill.nl 18, 273-293 RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND RELIGION EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA P. P ratap K umar 1. Introduction A few years ago Charles Long, one of the most distinguished Black historians of religions in America, narrated an anecdotal incident during one of his visiting lectures at the University of Cape Town. A young African immigrant was…
Indians in South Africa
Grey Street Casbah
In this paper, I wish to explore the life in the mid-19th to 20th century in the Durban-based Indian Casbah and its enduring legacy. In exploring the Casbah life in Durban, I wish to pay special attention to the narratives of the people who either were associated with it and had living memories of it, or remember the many stories passed on to them by their families.1 The central question that I explore in analysing these narratives is: does Casba…
Revealed social preferences and joint forest management outcomes
Religious Pluralism and Religion Education in South Africa
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Also available online – www.brill.nl 18, 273-293 RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND RELIGION EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA P. P ratap K umar 1. Introduction A few years ago Charles Long, one of the most distinguished Black historians of religions in America, narrated an anecdotal incident during one of his visiting lectures at the University of Cape Town. A young African immigrant was…
Indians in South Africa
Religious Pluralism and Religion Education in South Africa
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Method & Theory in the Study of Religion Also available online – www.brill.nl 18, 273-293 RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND RELIGION EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA P. P ratap K umar 1. Introduction A few years ago Charles Long, one of the most distinguished Black historians of religions in America, narrated an anecdotal incident during one of his visiting lectures at the University of Cape Town. A young African immigrant was…
Introducing Hinduism
Place of subcaste ( jati ) identity in the discourse on caste
Caste as a social phenomenon has undergone many changes. The most important operative unit that has exemplified caste in its discourse is subcaste (jati) identity. Both within India and certainly in the diaspora, there is now increasing evidence of the dissolution of subcaste (jati) identities giving rise to various other formations of groups replacing the endogamous relationships with other arbitrary group formations. In this article, I examine …
Food Restrictions and their Impact on South African Hindu Society with Special reference to the Hare Krishna Movement in Chatsworth
Resistance and Change
Virtually all neo-Hindu movements in South Africa began their work with an ideal to transform Hinduism from what they termed as superstitious beliefs and archaic ritual practices. What they were really responding to was the fear of losing Hindus to either Christianity or Islam. Their diagnosis was that the Hindus that came from the lower strata of society to South Africa from 1860 as indentured labourers were steeped in ritual practices that were…
Resistance and Change
Virtually all neo-Hindu movements in South Africa began their work with an ideal to transform Hinduism from what they termed as superstitious beliefs and archaic ritual practices. What they were really responding to was the fear of losing Hindus to either Christianity or Islam. Their diagnosis was that the Hindus that came from the lower strata of society to South Africa from 1860 as indentured labourers were steeped in ritual practices that were…
City of 201 Gods
Transgression and power
In the paper, I first recount the inner world of Ayya in order to show the implicit presence of the two critical strategies, namely transgression and power within the ‘habitus’ he constructs. I then attempt to tease out the two critical concepts that I have deployed to unpack the workings of Ayya's worldview. The conclusions that I have arrived at are not to be seen as broad generalizations beyond the scope of this paper, but rather an indication…
Revealed social preferences and joint forest management outcomes
Endogenous time preferences of forest goods and community-based forest management
Grey Street Casbah
In this paper, I wish to explore the life in the mid-19th to 20th century in the Durban-based Indian Casbah and its enduring legacy. In exploring the Casbah life in Durban, I wish to pay special attention to the narratives of the people who either were associated with it and had living memories of it, or remember the many stories passed on to them by their families.1 The central question that I explore in analysing these narratives is: does Casba…
Victor Mallet, River of Life, River of Death
Victor Mallet, River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. xxi + 316 pp., £20, ISBN: 978-0-19-878617-7
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Religious studies (7 works) · Hinduism (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)