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"The book offers an insight into the woman's world, which has for many centuries been confined to the limits of the house and the home. It also explores the 'meanings' of house and home in Maharashtra, including its spatial and architectural expression and the traditional art of house building or wada. The book dwells on familial, spiritual and emotional relationships within these spaces including kinship relations and the terminologies used to express them. ...
The present volume contains fourteen selected papers in English by the late G.-D. Sontheimer and follows up on his earlier volume King of Hunters, Warriors, and Shepherds: Essays on Khandoba (Delhi 1997). The articles chosen for publication here span a wide thematic and temporal range and will be of interest to students of Hinduism . The volume contains essays on the juristic personality of Hindu deities, the history and religion of pastoral groups in the Deccan ...
In recent decades the South Asian subcontinent has seen an often contentious nationalistic and regionalistic splintering which sometimes leads to horrifyingly bloody consequences. In India the process of transforming conceptual and cultural regions into administrative and political units continues to this day, with ever-more-refined regional identities becoming the basis for carving up larger states into smaller ones. For centuries there have also been many ...
How are hierarchies constructed? How do they work? How are they resisted? Seeking to recover histories and voices of 'those from below', this volume and its companion, Claiming Power from Below, explore various issues raised by the lived realities of Dalits, a term deployed here broadly to encompass the specifics of the caste community while simultaneously pointing to solidarities with other marginalized groups. Together the two volumes examine areas like ...