Imperial Ritual in a Local Setting
The Ceremonial Order in Surat, 1890-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3625699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas E Haynes (Dartmouth Hospital, corresponding author), Douglas Haynes |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 493-527 |
| Publication date | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00010441 |
| OpenAlex | W2002051373 |
| Language | IT |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 8 |
With the publication of Bernard Cohn's seminal article in theInvention of Tradition, the study of ritual in colonial India has acquired a new significance and a new respectability for South Asianists, particularly those inclined to 'ethnohistorical' approaches. Recently a number of essays on imperial ceremony have begun to appear with very profitable results. But those working on this subject have generally confined themselves to examining one of two problems: either they have looked at the ideological models and cultural meanings that informed the thinking of the British designers of these observances or they have explored the role of ritual in the setting of princely India. As yet scholars have developed little sense of how Indians outside the 'native states' conceived of their participation in durbars and other forms of public ceremony. Many materially inclined historians seem to assume that imperial ritual was a meaningless charade for Indians, that those who participated in ritual acts did so at best as a means of avoiding offence to their rulers, that the locus of 'real' politics lay elsewhere. A few no doubt consider the current focus on imperial display even to be a waste of time. In part this attitude issues from a nationalism that refuses to acknowledge its imperialist antecedents. In part it stems from a more general cynicism among late twentieth-century intellectuals toward ritual
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |