Format:
1 Online-Ressource (268 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780520976641
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One The Spectacle of Fire -- 1 Burning Issues -- 2 Colonial Necro-Politics and the Polysemic Corpse -- Part Two Questing Fire -- 3 The City and Its Dead -- 4 Consuming Fire -- 5 The Global Dead -- Part Three The Fire Triumphant -- 6 The Rebirth of Cremation -- 7 Cremation and the Nation -- Epilogue Rethinking the Hindu Pyre -- A Note on Weights and Currency -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
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 so-called 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. David Arnold 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 explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520379343
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780520379343
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
DOI:
10.1525/9780520976641
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