The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

abound with provocative images of Tamil ̄ tta ̄y shackled in chains, or confined to a dungeon. Her “children” were told that the ...

Revisiting Bha ̄rat Ma ̄ta ̄: Geopiety in Colonial and Postcolonial India If Tamil ̄ tta ̄y flourishes as an object of “language ...

the previous decades to make her a part of political landscape of the subconti- nent in the name of a “secular” India. It is sur ...

It is in this context of an emergent geopiety that Bankim Chandra’s famed hymn “Bande Ma ̄taram,” “Homage to [the] Mother,” was ...

Figure 26.2: Bha ̄rat Ma ̄ta ̄ (Mother India). Frontispiece to V. Lakshmanan, Putiya Arampakalvi Tamil (Mu ̄nra ̄m Puttakam) (Ma ...

Similarly, Bipin Chandra Pal, one of her most passionate of votaries, observed in an essay entitled “India: The Mother,” that “[ ...

that are associated with the “eternal” goddesses of the Hindu pantheon, espe- cially Devı ̄, the paradigmatic mother-goddess. So ...

Chandra Sarkar, appropriated a Tantric text called Das ́amaha ̄vidya ̄, and rewrote it in 1873 with a new protagonist, Bha ̄rat ...

instruments that are in use in today’s Tamil lifeworld, her devotees have preferred to show their goddess playing the archaic “y ...

Such a declaration reflects a new sentiment in which the language comes to be imagined, for the first time, as the personal prop ...

to see as “a whole” the entities that they embody, that I characterize the imagi- nations that gave birth to them as “modern.” A ...

Appadurai, Arjun. 1996. Modernity at Large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Bacchetta, Paola. 1996. “Hindu Nationali ...

Kaviraj, Sudipta. 1993. “The Imaginary Institution of India,” in Subaltern Studies VII: Writings on South Asian History and Soci ...

——. 1995. “Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organisation in Hindutva Politics,” in Women and the Hindu Right, eds. T. ...

CHAPTER 27 Gender in a Devotional Universe Vasudha Narayanan Gender is understood and acted out in different ways in the many Hi ...

In this chapter, I will discuss issues relating to gender in a modest fashion by using the S ́rı ̄vais.n.ava tradition – one of ...

to lead us into the issue of gender in the Hindu traditions. Namma ̄l ̄ va ̄r wrote four poems and in all of these he seeks to b ...

episodes are acted out in rituals over a 21-day period in front of the icon of Vis.n.u. These are attended by thousands of peopl ...

loosening my bonds, blows upon me. Embrace my beautiful breasts with the fragrance of the wild jasmine upon your radiant chest. ...

Some women poets like A ̄n.d.a ̄l (eighth century) tease Kr.s.n.a as “a prankster who knows no dharma” (Nacciyar Tirumoli14: 4) ...