Ritualizing Politics and Politicizing Ritual: A Study of Kullu Dussehra

IF 0.3 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Dolon Sarkar
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The study explores the modus operandi of the communities, kingship and modern nation-state in the spatial distribution of power in the ritual space. Kullu Dussehra is celebrated as a performative idiom of kingship, symbolically legitimizing royal or political power. It has consistently been appearing as a political phenomenon of burning Ravana’s effigy by the political leader. This symbolic role associates them with the pan-Indian imagination of ruler or lawmaker as the protector of dharma. In Kullu Dussehra, the share of power is spatially distributed, and the manifestation of royal power is celebrated and transmitted in public. The ritual space manifests the intersectionality of traditional notions of kingship and the modern nation-state. The paper tries to understand the power politics related to caste and social hierarchy in the Kullvi community. An overt caste-based ritual duty is highly practiced and expected to be celebrated by the community. However, there are multiple possibilities for the community to destabilize the ideological orientation of the hegemonic agencies.
政治仪式化与仪式政治化:库尔勒 Dussehra 节研究
本研究探讨了社区、王权和现代民族国家在仪式空间权力分配中的运作方式。库尔勒 Dussehra 节被视为王权的表演性成语,象征着王权或政治权力的合法化。它一直作为政治领袖焚烧拉瓦纳肖像的政治现象出现。这一象征性角色将他们与泛印度人对统治者或立法者作为佛法保护者的想象联系在一起。在库尔勒 Dussehra 节中,权力的份额在空间上得到了分配,王权的体现在公共场合得到了庆祝和传播。仪式空间体现了传统王权观念与现代民族国家的交叉性。本文试图了解库尔维社区中与种姓和社会等级相关的权力政治。以种姓为基础的公开仪式职责在社区中得到了高度实践,并有望得到庆祝。然而,该社区有多种可能来颠覆霸权机构的意识形态导向。
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Contemporary Voice of Dalit
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