Title: Religion, Caste, and Nation in South India
Description: 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.
Subjects: Religion and politics, India, religion, Śaivism, Politics and government, History, Tamilen, Ethnizität, Nationalismus, Gruppenidentität, Hinduismus, Reformbewegung, Religiöser Wandel, Schaiwasiddhanta, Sozialgeschichte