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Burning the Dead
- Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition
Engelsk Hardback
Burning the Dead
- Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition
Engelsk Hardback

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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 so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
268
ISBN-13:
9780520379343
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0520379349
Udg. Dato:
2 feb 2021
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
University of California Press
Oplagsdato:
2 feb 2021
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