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Religion, caste, and nation in South India : Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite movement, and Tamil nationalism, 1876-1950 / V. Ravi Vaithees.

Title: Religion, caste, and nation in South India : Maraimalai Adigal, the Neo-Saivite movement, and Tamil nationalism, 1876-1950 / V. Ravi Vaithees.
Author: Vaithees, V. Ravi
Publication: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Description

xv, 347 pages : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm

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.

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University press scholarship online.

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History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-335) and index.

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committed to retain

ISBN

9780199451814 (hardback)
0199451818 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2015361234

OCLC

911611158
SCSB-12764537

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Harvard Library