Religion, caste and nation in south India: Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite Movement, and Tamil Nationalism, 1876 – 1950

Departing sharply from the principal focus on language and the 'secular-modern' in contemporary nationalism studies, this volume examines the religious roots of nationalism, specifically the religious roots of non-Brahmin Tamil nationalism and the Dravidian movement in India. The book argu...

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Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford University Press 2015
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Summary:Departing sharply from the principal focus on language and the 'secular-modern' in contemporary nationalism studies, this volume examines the religious roots of nationalism, specifically the religious roots of non-Brahmin Tamil nationalism and the Dravidian movement in India. The book argues that it was the anti-Aryan, anti-Sanskritic imperatives and spirit of the neo-Saivite movement that came to inform and animate the neo-Saivite readings of the Tamil and Indian past and indeed the articulation of neo-Saivism as a form of non-Brahmin Tamil nationalism.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780199085354
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199451814.001.0001

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