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Shared idioms, sacred symbols, and the articulation of identities in South Asia /

This volume examines evidence of shared idioms of sanctity, ethnicity, and nationality as they emerge in examples from Indo-Pakistan.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pemberton, Kelly, Nijhawan, Michael
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge studies in religion ; 11.
Subjects:
Group identity > South Asia.
Symbolism > South Asia.
Political culture > South Asia.
South Asia > Civilization.
Civilization.
Group identity.
Political culture.
Symbolism.
South Asia.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • A house overturned : a classical Urdu lament in Braj Bhasha / Amy Bard and Valerie Ritter
  • The politics of non-duality : unraveling the hermeneutics of modern Sikh theology / Arvind Mandair
  • Who are the Velalas? : twentieth-century constructions and contestations of Tamil identity in Maraimalai Adigal (1876-1950) / Srilata Raman
  • Can a Muslim be an Indian and not a traitor or a terrorist? / Huma Dar
  • Variants of cultural nationalism in Pakistan : a reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz / Amina Yaqin
  • Ambivalent encounters : the making of dhadi as a Sikh performative practice / Michael Nijhawan
  • Ritual, reform, and economies of meaning at a South Asian Sufi shrine / Kelly Pemberton
  • Gendered ritual and the shaping of ShiĘ»ah identity / Diane D'Souza
  • History, memory, and other matters of life and death / Christian Lee Novetzke.