RT Book
T1 Burning the dead: Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition
A1 Arnold, David 1946-
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of California Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1702006123
AB "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 "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. The book 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 it explores the struggle for the official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, David Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasingly social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-242. - Index
CN BL1226.82.F86
SN 978-0-520-37934-3
K1 Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies : India
K1 Cremation : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Death : Religious aspects : Hinduism
K1 Cremation : Religious aspects : Christianity
K1 Hinduism : Customs and practices
K1 India : Death and burial : History : 19th century
K1 India : Religious life and customs