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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: transformation of Tamil religion
    sub title: Ramalinga Swamigal (1823-1874) and modern Dravidian sainthood
  name:
    name part: Raman, Srilata
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 346 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book analyzes the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil Śaivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga's own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th -mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal's ideology of compassion, cīvakāruṇyam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil Śaivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity, Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, south Asian history and literature and subaltern studies.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I: Retrieving Ramalinga Swamigal: 1. Pulavar to Prophet. A 19th century Religious Life -- 2. Ramalingar the Master and the Cittar -- 3. The Context of Compassion -- 4. Hunger and Compassion: the Cīvakāruṇya ol̲ukkam -- 5. Anti-Hagiography -- Part II: Re-creating Ramalinga Swamigal: 6. Śaiva Ferment -- 7. The Life and Times of Ñān̲iyār Āṭikaḷ (1873-1942) -- 8. Tiru.Vi.Ka: Ramalingar's Camaracam as Radical Equality -- 9. Mā. Po. Ci: Ramalinga Swamigal and Dravidian Sainthood -- 10. Ramalingar Redux -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
  note: Srilata Raman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [318]-336) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Swami
      name part: Ramalinga
      name part: 1823-1874
  subject:
    topic: Hindu saints
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Religion
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: BL1175.R34 R36 2022
  classification: 294.5/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge South Asian religion series ; 20
  identifier: 9781138015234
  identifier: 1138015237
  identifier: 9781032210346
  identifier: 1032210346
  identifier: 9781315794518
  identifier: 2021051492
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211021
    record change date: 20220930131425.8
    record identifier: in00004595499