Authors: Oddie
ISBN-13: 9780700702244, ISBN-10: 0700702245
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Recent studies of South India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries concentrate primarily on political and social issues. Studies of specifically religious developments, of religious encounter, institutions and movements, especially in the nineteenth century, have been few and far between. The purpose of this study is to examine religious institutions, trends and developments in parts of South-east India, focusing on the Tanjore and Trichinopoly districts - a region that has long been famous as a centre of cultural and religious activity. It is recalled that neither Hinduism nor Christianity were totally static forms of religious organization, ritual or belief, but were living traditions always in the process of change and adaptation: thus one of the major concerns of the book deals with continuities, conversion and change.
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Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Legacies and Setting | 12 |
2 | Company Policies, Temples and Changing Attitudes, 1800-1838 | 40 |
3 | The Results of the Company's Disconnection with Hinduism | 64 |
4 | Sectarian Conflicts within Srivaishavaism: Tengalais and Vadagalais | 82 |
5 | The Character, Role and Significance of Non-Braham Saivite Maths in Tanjore District | 98 |
6 | Aspects of Popular Hinduism | 119 |
7 | Brahmans and Christian Conversion | 140 |
8 | The Depressed Classes and Christianity | 153 |
9 | The Christian Community in a Hindu Setting: Continuities and Change | 170 |
10 | Hindu Revivalism and Theosophy | 189 |
Conclusion | 217 | |
Appendix 1: Adhinam Temples, Tanjore District, c. 1841-1900 | 232 | |
Appendix 2: Trustees of some Non-Adhinam Temples, Tanjore District | 234 | |
Appendix 3: Temple Committees | 236 | |
Appendix 4: Temple Lands and Income, Tanjore District | 240 | |
Appendix 5: Castes denied Entry into Principal Temples, Tanjore District, c. 1881-1901 | 241 | |
Appendix 6: Peak Attendances at some Religious Festivals: Estimates | 242 | |
Appendix 7: Tanjore and Trichinopoly: Religious Communities | 244 | |
Appendix 8: Brahman Converts | 245 | |
Appendix 9: Religion by Caste | 248 | |
Appendix 10: Theosophical Society Members, Trichinopoly and Tanjore Districts, 1883-1900 | 252 | |
Appendix 11: Education by Caste: Hindus, 1888-1889 | 258 | |
Appendix 12: Hindu Tract Society Membership, 1888-1889 | 259 | |
Appendix 13: Enrolments in Government and Missionary Colleges: Tanjore and Trichinopoly Districts, 1881-1882 to 1893-1894 | 260 | |
Select Bibliography | 261 | |
Glossary | 270 | |
Index | 273 |