Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books | 294.50954552 JON (Browse shelf) | Available | 031907 |
294.50954 ESC Cult of Jagannath and the regional tradition of Orissa | 294.50954 FUL Camphor flame : popular Hinduism and society in India | 294.5095409014 BAI Hinduism in India : the early period | 294.50954552 JON Arya dharm : Hindu consciousness in 19th-century Punjab | 294.512 BHA Unforgetting Chaitanya : Vaishnavism and cultures of devotion in colonial Bengal | 294.513 DUM Destiny of a king | 294.513 OFL Hindu myths : a sourcebook translated from the Sanskrit |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The major focus of this book is on modernizing Movements - social, religious, and Cultural - among Punjabi Hindus from the 1860s through World War I. The Arya Samaj, one such movement, dominates the volume, as it dominated a half-century of change in the Punjab. Prof. Jones begins with an account of the earliest individual attempts of reformers to adapt their cultural Traditions to the new world of the British Empire. He examines the development of new ideologies, the Creation of group consciousness based on them, and the resultant expression of an overt Hindu politics. He demonstrates that the process underlying cultural interaction between the British and Punjabi Hindus, Beginning in a particularistic manner, found expression by the twentieth century in the demands of a politicized Hindu elite.
There are no comments for this item.