Shared idioms, sacred symbols, and the articulation of identities in South Asia
By: edited by Kelly Pemberton & Michael Nijhawan.
Contributors: Pemberton, Kelly.; Nijhawan, Michael.
Series: Routledge studies in religion -- 11
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415958288; 9780203885369
Subjects: Group identity -- South Asia; Symbolism -- South Asia; Political culture -- South Asia; South Asia -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A house overturned : a classical Urdu lament in Braj bhasha / Amy Bard & Valerie Ritter; title: The politics of non-duality : unravelling the hermeneutics of modern Sikh theology / Arvind Mandair; title: Who are the Vellalas? : 20th century constructions and contestations of Tamil identity in Maraimalai Adigal (1876-1950) / Srilata Raman; title: Can a Muslim be an Indian and not a traitor or terrorist? / Huma Dar; title: Variants of cultural nationalism in Pakistan : a reading of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Jamil Jalibi, and Fahmida Riaz / Amina Yaqin; title: Ambivalent encounters : the making of dhadi as a Sikh performative practice / Michael Nijhawan; title: Ritual, reform, and economies of meaning at a South Asian Sufi shrine / Kelly Pemberton; title: Gendered ritual and the shaping of Shiʻah identity / Diane D'Souza; title: History, memory, and other matters of life and death / Christian Lee Novetzke.