Peasants and Monks in British India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3963770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank J Korom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 355 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Peasants and Monks in British India, William R Pinch, 1997 |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/606145 |
| OpenAlex | W2012207810 |
| Language | EN |
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy - particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different - Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status - the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British
Ancient history · Political science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy
Power Permutations in Early Hindi Manuscripts
Beyond Theological Differences
Telling her tale? Unravelling a life in conflict in Peero’s Ik Sau Saṭh Kāfiaṅ. (one hundred and sixty kafis)
Introduction
Historical origins of a ‘caste society’
The Colonial Logic of Late Romanticism
From Peasant Soldiering to Peasant Activism
Making the Colonial State Work for You
Sergeant-Major Gandhi
The Marketplace and the Temple
The Making of a Peasant King in Colonial Western India
Suggesting Śāntarasa in Shanti Mandir’s Satsaṅga
The Wandering Fakirs of Bengal
Conflicting spaces
Life of Ramanandi Centres in Varanasi
Between Enduring Urban Models and Shifting Cultural Trajectories
Killing Ascetics in Indian History, ca. 1500–2000
Bhakti Rhetoric in the Hagiography of ‘Untouchable’ Saints
Five heads and no tale
Internal Diasporas, Caste Organizations, and Community Identities
Agradās and Rām Rasik Bhakti Community
Cultural pluralism, empire and the state in early modern South Asia—A review essay
The Darbār, the British, and the Runaway Mahārāja
Feminine, criminal or manly
Toward a history of devotional Vaishnavism in the West Himalayas
Gurusand Gifting
Widows, Family, Community, and the Formation of Anglo-Hindu Law in Eighteenth-Century India
Asceticising' Monastic Families
Hierarchy as a Democratic Value in India
Bhakti and Its Public
Gender, Family, and the Policing of the 'Criminal Tribes' in Nineteenth-Century North India
| Highly cited | No |
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