The governing guru

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ID20074483
AuthorsAya Ikegame (corresponding author)
Year2012
Pages46-63
Publication date2012-08-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe guru in South Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203116258-2
OpenAlexW4293090768
ISBN9780203116258
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited17

Using a highly elaborate theoretical schematisation, Louis Dumont re-asserted in the 1970s the long-held colonial assumption about Hindu society that there is a clear distinction between the religious domain (authority) and politico-economic domain (power), that the former always dominates and encompasses the latter, and that the latter always needs to be legitimised by the former (Dumont 1980: 33–49, 65–72, 152–8 and especially 287–313). This view has been widely criticised and many scholars have endeavoured to overturn this dichotomy and to emphasise instead the centrality of the king or dominant castes in Indian society (Appadurai 1981, Dirks 1987, Raheja 1988a, 1988b: 498)

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