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Hindu nationalism, Untouchable reform, and the ritual production of a South Indian village
Author(s) -
Mines Diane P.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2002.29.1.58
Subject(s) - hindu nationalism , tamil , nationalism , hinduism , locality , sociology , politics , phenomenology (philosophy) , power (physics) , futures contract , gender studies , peasant , anthropology , religious studies , law , political science , philosophy , art , literature , epistemology , economics , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , financial economics
From 1989 through 1990, residents of a Tamil village drew on national signs— the Rule of Ram, ideas of equality, images of Ambedkar—as they contested the social contours of their village through ritual action. Taking a phenomenological approach, I argue that as village residents localized their imagined futures of equality and power, they were in fact asserting themselves as historical actors with the power to remake their present and to remake the locality (the village) in which they live, [locality, ritual, politics, nationalism, phenomenology, South India]