The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

CHAPTER 23 On the Relationship between Caste and Hinduism Declan Quigley Every serious work on Hinduism emphasizes the extraordi ...

liberal, egalitarian eyes, is an apparently constant preoccupation with main- taining differences between groups and expressing ...

other forms of social organization. Of these perhaps the most striking is the insti- tution of untouchability whereby members of ...

he calls the “disjunction between status and power.” By the latter he means that those who are the most politically powerful def ...

the lowest status, while those whose functions are more ethereal enjoy the highest status. However, the relative evaluation of c ...

functions which are widely regarded as inherently dangerous – mean that there are four mistakes in the oft-repeated formula that ...

are ecologically capable of sustaining kingdoms: relatively large populations in a relatively small area. Caste is associated wi ...

modern political realities (see also Galey 1989). Even Raheja, whose brilliant ethnography exposed the faultlines of Dumont’s th ...

of a village, a county, a country, or even a continent depending on the interpre- tation given to what the questioner is seeking ...

There is a great deal of dispute about which varn.aa particular ja ̄tishould be associated with because everyone wants to be lin ...

from my comparative approach which seeks to explain the institution of caste in sociological terms rather than in terms of a reg ...

The ra ̄ja looks after the spiritual needs of the kingdom by exercising his special priestly functions, without which fertility ...

References Basham, A. L. 1971. The Wonder that was India. London: Fontana/Collins. Brockington, J. L. 1981. The Sacred Thread: H ...

——. 1980. “Ghosts, Greed and Sin: The Occupational Identity of the Benares Funeral Priests,”ManNS 15: 88–111. ——. 1986. “The Gif ...

CHAPTER 24 Modernity, Reform, and Revival Dermot Killingley Introduction In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hindu tradit ...

also Pakistan and Bangladesh. In the same period the term “Hindu,” which had been first a geographical and then an ethnic label, ...

who themselves were not unanimous. Most notably, while the Company tradi- tionally held that its position required it to refrain ...

by pandits for whom it was a family tradition, but the patronage on which they depended declined in the eighteenth century. The ...

women, or Advaita Veda ̄nta, for instance, which were frequent in the nineteenth century, were taken as attacks on Hinduism itse ...

which had followers among the Company’s officials (including Bentinck and Grant, already mentioned), often worked together. The ...