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In colonial south India, notions of ritual, caste, and religion played a crucial role in the formation of social, cultural, and religious identities. Deeply embedded in wide-ranging discourses, these notions often mirrored social conflicts and challenged political and religious authority. Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India, through a detailed analysis of Tamil and Telugu sources, and through an examination of the newly established print media of ...
The last decades of the twentieth century have witnessed an enlarged understanding of the notion of 'text' as not only comprising written documents, but also rituals, artifacts and the like. Thereby, 'texts' were brought closer to the social, religious or historical contexts that help to interpret texts. Scholars, traditionally divided in different disciplines that deal either more with texts (historians, philologists, etc.) or with contexts (sociologists, ...