Heinz-Murray 2E.book

168 Part III: South Asia Also during these centuries, Hinduism was changing, or as some argue, it was actually coming into exist ...

Chapter 5 India 169 villages across the subcontinent, their temples, mosques, saints’ tombs, and shrines patronized by everyone. ...

170 Part III: South Asia chosen and personally overseen by Akbar himself (see the image on the facing page). The 19-year-old emp ...

Chapter 5 India 171 tively illustrated events from the Mahabharata, Ramayana, and Harivamsa, which Akbar had translated for the ...

172 Part III: South Asia and was granted a vast territory to rule and right to collect revenues; this grant is known as the Diwa ...

Chapter 5 India 173 Indian constitution. Scholars have written about the “eternal” caste system, the “immutable” caste system, a ...

174 Part III: South Asia Vaishyas to Shudras. From this same sacrifice came not only the four human orders but all the beasts of ...

Chapter 5 India 175 or a few dozen castes, all interconnected through occupation and the varna hierarchy. The word caste comes f ...

176 Part III: South Asia rights similar to labor unions; in many villages, for example, a rich landowner could not cut his own h ...

Chapter 5 India 177 Though the specific set of castes varied from region to region, many fea- tures turned up almost everyplace. ...

178 Part III: South Asia led by the reforming Swami Sahananda, himself a Bhumihar, in the mode of Mahatma Gandhi. In the 1960s, ...

Chapter 5 India 179 to them by the untouchables, who insulted them by treating ghee as an item of food which they ought to have ...

Box 5.6 Dominant Caste Seeks Backward Status It was a headline story on August 26, 2016: “Riots Break Out in India Over a Domi- ...

Chapter 5 India 181 India has greatly improved the status of women, who may now be seen every- where in public and in almost all ...

182 Part III: South Asia “female purity complex” emerged, in which women’s virtue is prized and is seen as a problem for the men ...

Box 5.7 Sita as Role Model? “Be like Sita,” is a formula urged on young women across India for countless gen- erations. In Benga ...

184 Part III: South Asia take food to feed the gods and then eat the leftovers. She may fast on Tuesdays to ensure his long life ...

Chapter 5 India 185 is paid to the prestige of the family the daughter is given to than to the boy him- self and whether the two ...

186 Part III: South Asia fall in love after the wedding, not before. The wedding rites initiate her suhag, the auspicious state ...

Box 5.8 “What Should Happen but Never Does,” by Supriya Jha This painting by a young Indian woman artist tells a story of a dowr ...