TY - BOOK AU - Bergunder,Michael AU - Frese,Heiko AU - Schröder,Ulrike TI - Ritual, caste, and religion in colonial South India T2 - Neue Hallesche Berichte SN - 9789380607214 AV - BL2016.S68 R58 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Delhi PB - Primus Books KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - India, South KW - History KW - Caste KW - Hinduism KW - Rituals KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Telugu (Indic people) KW - Religious life and customs N1 - Copyright Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle; Includes bibliographical references and index; Performing the revival: performance and performativity in a colonial discourse in South India / Andreas Nehring. -- Saiva Siddhanta as a universal religion: J.M. Nallasvami Pullai and Hinduism in colonial South India / Michael Bergunder. -- Forging a Tamil caste: Maraimalai Adigal and the discourse of caste and ritual in colonial Tamilnadu / Ravi Vaitheespara. -- Sustaining the pre-colonial past: Saiva defiance against Christian rule in the 19th century in Jaffna / Peter Schalk. -- No religion, but ritual? Robert Caldwell and the Tinnevelly Shanars / Ulrike Schröder. -- Landscapes of Christianity in colonial South India: the matter of Hindu ritual and Christian conversion, 1870-1920 / Mary E. Hancock. -- Witnessing fun: Tamil-speaking Muslims and the imagination of ritual in colonial Southeast Asia / Torsten Tschacher. -- The agraharam: the transformation of social space and Brahman status in Tamilnadu during the colonial and postcolonial periods / C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan; Vicissitudes of subaltern self-identification: a reading of Tamilan / Gnanasigamony Aloysius. -- 'More Kshatriya than thou!" Debating the caste and ritual ranking in colonial Tamilnadu / A.R. Venkatachalapathy. -- Soliloquizing Brahmans: Questions to a Telugu journal from the late 19th century / Heiko Frese. -- Anti-reform discourse in Andhra: cultural nationalism that failed / Vakulabharanam Rajagopal. -- Miltiple lives of a text: The Sumati śatakamu in colonial Andhra / Velcheru Narayana Rao. -- Appendices: T. Velayuda Mudaliar vs. N. Chidambaram Iyer on the message of Ramalinga Adigal. -- Sources on the contact between J.M. Nallasvami Pillai and Vivekananda ER -