{"title":"Book review: Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony","authors":"Raphael Susewind","doi":"10.1177/00699667221148689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221148689","url":null,"abstract":"Shannon Philip. 2022. Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Postcolony. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. xii + 197 pp. Appendix, references, index. ₹795 (hardback—ISBN: 9781009158718)","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"331 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45964764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whence karma?","authors":"J. Bronkhorst","doi":"10.1177/00699667221148668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221148668","url":null,"abstract":"How did the belief in rebirth and karmic retribution come into existence? W. D. Whitney called it ‘one of the most difficult questions in the religious history of India’, and Richard Salomon described it, a century later, as ‘the single greatest problem of Indological studies’. Scholars have proposed textual continuities leading up to texts that give expression to this belief, but questions can be and have been raised about such continuities. Worse, these studies do not deal with the observation made by A. B. Keith almost a century ago, viz., that ‘while the ideas thus recorded are of some value … the importance of transmigration lies precisely in the fact that the doctrine is an ethical system’. The one scholar who fully recognises the importance of ethicisation is Gananath Obeyesekere. Unfortunately, his theory is based on some disputable assumptions, which weaken it, as they weaken Richard Seaford’s theory, which builds on Obeyesekere’s ideas. This article offers an altogether different approach that puts this belief in line with beliefs that accompanied the appearance of social complexity elsewhere in the world.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"247 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47658791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond contiguity: Space, caste, and statues in Tamil Nadu","authors":"Dhivya Janarthanan","doi":"10.1177/00699667221132586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221132586","url":null,"abstract":"The contiguity of the divine, the human, and the object is routinely noted in scholarship on South Asia. In this article, I re-examine this model of contiguity by focusing on the vandalism of what I term a caste-iconic statue in 2008 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and track the effects of this incident in a village and on its caste groups until 2015. Beyond contiguity, I here offer a relational approach to studying space, caste, and statues.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"186 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46968060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power","authors":"Ozancan Bozkurt","doi":"10.1177/00699667221125855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221125855","url":null,"abstract":"Ranjita Dawn. 2021. The Social Model of Disability in India: Politics of Identity and Power. New York: Routledge. xvi + 199 pp. Notes, references, index. $53.35 (eBook)","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"226 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44751021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect","authors":"Malvika Sharma","doi":"10.1177/00699667221125868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221125868","url":null,"abstract":"Farhana Ibrahim and Tanuja Kothiyal, eds. 2021. South Asian Borderlands: Mobility, History, Affect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 286 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, references, index. £75.00 (hardback)","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"223 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41611988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi","authors":"Tuhina Ganguly","doi":"10.1177/00699667221132584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221132584","url":null,"abstract":"Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals. In Hindu and neo-Hindu religious movements, the guru’s samadhi is one such important sacred space. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on one Ashram in India and the importance of the Samadhi shrine in the life of its members. The article argues that the Samadhi constitutes the spatial heart of an otherwise spatially dispersed Ashram. It is at the Samadhi that the devotees become present to the gurus and one another, creating a community of devotees through both a linear ‘chain of memory’ and lateral ‘intimacy grids’. At the same time, the creation of such a community grapples with the wider locational specificities of the Ashram and the politics of making it a home.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"156 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment","authors":"Shoma Choudhury Lahiri","doi":"10.1177/00699667221125872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221125872","url":null,"abstract":"Lucas Chancel. 2020. Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment. Translated by M. B DeBevoise. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. viii + 176 pp. Notes, tables, illustrations, index. $29.95 (hardback - PDF read by book reviewer)","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46610795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora","authors":"Dikshya Karki","doi":"10.1177/00699667221125770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221125770","url":null,"abstract":"David N. Gellner and Sondra L. Hausner, eds. 2018. Global Nepalis: Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 540 pp. Maps, tables, figures, references, index. £51 (hardback)","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"220 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43454399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The making of the Malayalee public sphere and the exclusion of Mappila women: Language and communal politics in Colonial Malabar","authors":"B. Sunil","doi":"10.1177/00699667221132585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221132585","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the formation and distinctive evolution of the Malayalee public sphere in Malabar from the second half of the 19th century. When the press was introduced, versions of Malayalam, such as Arabimalayalam, Suriyani-Malayalam, and Aryanezhuthu/modern-Malayalam, were seen to be associated with different communities. The varied community and religious orientations of Malayalam were reflected in the newly emerging Malayalee public sphere. The tensions that racked the public sphere on this count compelled the Mappila intelligentsia to turn to modern Malayalam in order to contest claims alluding to their criminality. It led to their withdrawal from Arabimalayalam which was the language of their community. The waning of Arabimalayalam had an impact on Mappila women annihilating the possibility of their voices being heard in the newly emergent public sphere.","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"133 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44252160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}