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Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition /

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the south Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity and affect, it examines how the "traditional" practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air fun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arnold, David, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies > India.
Cremation > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Death > Religious aspects > Hinduism.
Cremation > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Hinduism > Customs and practices.
India > Religious life and customs.
India > Death and burial > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Burning issues
  • Colonial necropolitics and the polysemic corpse
  • The city and its dead
  • Consuming fire
  • The global dead
  • The rebirth of cremation
  • Cremation and the nation
  • Epilogue : rethinking the Hindu Pyre.