Chatterjee: Forgotten Friends

Chatterjee, Indrani:
Forgotten Friends : Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India / Indrani Chatterjee. - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013. - xiv, 451 S. : Ill., Kt.
ISBN 978-0-19-808922-3
Rs. 1025,00 (OUP India)
US$ 47,60 (D.K. Agencies)
£ 30,00 (OUP UK)
US$ 55,00 (OUP USA)
DDC: 294.095416

Beschreibung
This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufi teachers and their disciples, students, and adherents in the northeast India. In the course of the nineteenth century, war, changes in revenue regimes, and the growth of the plantation economies fragmented this landscape and dissolved the relationships. The economic and military processes also reshaped the moral-political economy in which wives of monastic males, female cultivators and labour-servants were the key constituents. These substantive changes were obscured by the language used by colonial officials to describe monks as 'savages', and female-dependent communities as 'primitive tribes'. After the formation of the new nation, Indian historians and anthropologists began to write histories using colonial terms. In the process, both colonial and postcolonial historians erased the erstwhile monastic relationships across the region. They contributed to a widespread forgetting of the women who had made it all possible. The study examines how the new nation as well as its new history rests on many layers of forgetting. [Oxford University Press USA]

Inhalt
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Monastic Governance, 'Geographicity', Gender
2. Eighteenth-century Shifts of Monastic Governments
3. Political Ecology and Reconstituted 'Hindu' Marriage
4. Translations of Adherence: From 'Feudalism' and 'Slavery' to 'Savagery'
5. A Fraternity of Tea and the Monastic Politics of Friendship
6. Undoing Gender? Restoration of Motherhood and Memory
Conclusion: Rule by Ethnography, Forgetting Monastic Histories and Households
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Autorin
Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She earlier taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi. Profile page.

Quellen: Oxford University Press (India); Oxford University Press (USA); Oxford University Press (UK); WorldCat; D.K. Agencies
Bildquelle: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Bibliographie: [1]

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