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{"title":"The trail of an eastern deity in the western Himalaya: a study of Lord Jagannath’s temple in the Sirmaur region of Himachal Pradesh","authors":"A. Verma, Neelam","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.407","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the multiple agents and processes behind the integration of the cult of Jagannath of Puri into the western Himalayan kingdom of Sirmaur circa 1600–1900. It argues that the transition of the cult from Orissa (now called Odisha) to the hills was crucial to the formation of Sirmaur as a modern Rajput state and that this process was closely assisted by the involvement of politically savvy ritual specialists from Rajasthan. Relying on a combination of a close reading of local histories and on-site interviews, it explores the actions and motivations of Sirmaur’s rulers, their subjects and representatives of devotional Vaishnavism in the establishment of a multi-religious state. The establishment of thakurdwaras associated with Krishna in the kingdom’s core regions during the 18th century illustrates the continual evolution of both rulers and priests towards embracing the cultural changes affecting modern India. The representation of these seemingly disparate elements in a single historical narrative ultimately helps to situate the emergence of Himalayan states within the broader context of state-building in early modern South Asia. The trail of an eastern deity in the western Himalaya: a study of Lord Jagann... European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 57 | 2021 16","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128592366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Festivals, time and space: the structure of the Indo-Nepalese version of the Hindu calendar","authors":"M. Gaborieau","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.437","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"81 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130850555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Lamp for the Eye of Contemplation, the bSam-gtan mig-sgron by gNubs-chen Sangs-rgyas ye-shes: Hermeneutical study with English translation and critical edition of a Tibetan Buddhist text on contemplation","authors":"D. Esler","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130113888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Kinship Terminology of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong)","authors":"Pascal Bouchery","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.162","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the kinship system of the Adi of Arunachal Pradesh (Padam and Minyong subgroups), focusing on its kin terminology. This system corresponds to the Omaha model defined by Lévi-Strauss, marked by generational skewing and only proscriptive matrimonial rules. It is also characterised by a remarkable profusion of terms of address indicating birth order. A comparison with the Mising system provides an opportunity to challenge some current neo-evolutionist paradigms regarding the transformations of kinship terminologies.","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115188619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ageing in the Global South: A case study on life in old age from Nepal","authors":"Sarah Speck","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.154","url":null,"abstract":"2 Part I of the thesis provides the frame and research design. It outlines the applied conceptual approaches: a critical livelihood perspective providing a lens to capture real life problems and to focus on what is actually important for the people concerned; the concept of the family as a social institution and the intergenerational contract. A triangulation of qualitative methods was applied for data collection, including 71 problem-centred interviews with older villagers, 18 expert interviews, participant observation and six visits to social institutions caring for the elderly. Part I closes with a synthesis, concluding that the current generation of older people are undergoing a transitional and uncertain period where familial support and care are declining while the Nepalese state is ill-prepared to mitigate the issues resulting from an ageing population. The challenges reported by older villagers centre primarily on social, financial and health issues and present significant challenges to their families, society at large and policymakers. Part II of the thesis consists of four peer-reviewed research articles. The first article assesses older people’s current situation and the everyday social and economic challenges they face in five mountain villages in the context of outmigration. The second article discusses the implications of combined outmigration and demographic change for the family composition, while particularly reviewing the changing roles, responsibilities and status of the elderly within the family. The third article examines the role of organisations and institutions which have recently emerged in urban areas and which are concerned about providing older people with support. The fourth article looks at the social security allowance in Nepal and the difficulties older people experience when attempting to access financial security services. 3 This doctoral thesis makes a timely contribution to the nascent discipline of geographical gerontology and contributes to an under-researched topic relevant to the mountain regions of the Global South and draws attention to a social group that has frequently been overlooked in both development and migration research.","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126276540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Religious World of guthis: Three facets of Newār civilization, Nepal","authors":"G. Toffin","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126979987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Newspaper for Tibet: Babu Tharchin and the ‘Tibet Mirror’ (Yul phyogs so so’i gsar ‘gyur me long, 1925–1963) from Kalimpong","authors":"Anna Sawerthal","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.146","url":null,"abstract":"newspapers in the Tibetan language. Differing from its precursors, Melong was not envisioned mainly as a medium to propagate religious content (as Christian missionaries had done) or political propaganda (as Republicans in China had done). Melong’s editor-in-chief Tharchin attributed special value to the newspaper: as a medium of an active public of a nation state. 2 After a concise history of mediated communication on the Tibetan plateau with a focus on printed media, the production environment of Melong’s print shop ‘Tibet Mirror Press’ in Kalimpong is examined. Here, Tharchin, with his workshop, is identified as one of the first commercial print-publishers for the Tibetan language. His partly commercial outlook gave way to a new agency of mass audiences, in theory levelling people as equal potential customers and disregarding traditional sociocultural hierarchies. 3 A detailed content analysis of editorial comments published in the newspaper underlines this trend. The same data gives insight into how Tibet as a nation state was imagined within Melong, while appropriating content in language and style for specific communicative protocols established amongst Tibetan-language speakers. Five case studies based on the general content of the newspaper further highlight the strategies used to help understand foreign concepts, whilst changing the newspaper in the process. These are: religion (Christianity), knowledge production (discourses on the shape of the earth), world politics (coverage of the Second World War), economics (advertisements) and time (the newspaper as prophecy). 4 On the one hand, the study investigates transformation processes of the participating community, Tibet. On the other hand, it investigates how, in the process, the global product newspaper was adapted to a Tibetan-speaking audience, analysing transformation processes of the newspaper genre. Due to the state of available source material, the study focuses on the imaginations of Tibet within the contents of the newspaper and thus combines Benedict Anderson’s theses of ‘imagined communities’ with a transcultural approach.","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124584515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resisting Disappearance. Military Occupation & Women’s Activism in Kashmir, by Ather Zia","authors":"A. Bouzas","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.82","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123934259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Promise of Unconditional Acceptance: Conversion to Christianity and the struggle for being in Sinja, Nepal","authors":"Samuele Poletti","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.207","url":null,"abstract":"S Over the last few decades, Nepal’s Christian population has flourished even in quite remote contexts such as the Sinja Valley, in the north-western district of Jumla. The reasons why people are drawn towards Evangelical Christianity in particular are primarily existential and are intimately related to the problematic situations they are confronted with in their lives, which are rooted in turn in a very specific understanding of personhood. Among local Hindus, the lack of a unitary principle comparable to the Christian soul has important consequences. Far from being a permanent achievement, personhood needs to be constantly actualised in relational interaction with other people, through appropriate actions that match one’s social persona. This can cause a lot of tension, particularly when what happens in someone’s life hinders the fulfilment of social expectations. What seems to make Christianity appealing in Sinja is that, in this religion, one’s self is given a priori by God, thereby ensuring that everyone is of equal worth within the congregation. This promise of unconditional acceptance fosters a state of rediscovered existential peacefulness that many converts describe as the key outcome of their radical choice – a choice that is often facilitated by the occurrence of miracles. At the same time, conversion to Pentecostal Christianity also introduces unprecedented challenges, preventing us from viewing conversion as a simplistic, one-dimensional transition.","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134343180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Materials for the Study of Gurung Pe, by Simon Strickland","authors":"Mark Turin","doi":"10.4000/ebhr.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ebhr.112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":356497,"journal":{"name":"European Bulletin of Himalayan Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116915367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}