Writers, editors and reformers : social and political transformations of Maharashtra, 1830-1930
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Writers, editors and reformers : social and political transformations of Maharashtra, 1830-1930
（South Asian studies, 34）
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 1999
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Writers, editors & reformers
Writers, editors & reformers : social and political transformations of Maharashtra, 1830-1930
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"Writers, editors & reformers"--Spine title
"South Asia Institute, New Delhi Branch, Heidelberg University, South Asian studies No. XXXIV"--[P. 2]
Includes bibliographical references and index
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The essays in this volume, written by specialists on Maharashtra, reveal the intensity of intellectual and social ferment, under the shadow of Westernization, taking place in Maharashtra from mid-nineteenth to the first three decades of the twentieth century. Jayant Lele, Rajendra Vora, Uttam Bhoite and E. Fasana examine Maharashtrian Brahman and non-Brahman elites use of political symbols and models to effect a transformation of political culture of Maharashtra. More specifically, the influence of Resorgimento, the nineteenth-century Italian nationalist movement on political ideology of Hindutva and Hindupadpadshahi is analysed in E. Fasanas seminal contribution. How George Buist as an editor of Bombay Times influenced, and later repulsed, the Mumbai elites, is the theme of Aroon Tikekars essay. Milton Israel examines the competing Indian nationalist and parochial priorities of Bombay Chronicle, expressed through its English and Indian editors. J.V. Naiks Bhau Mahajan, both as the editor and publisher of Prabhakar in Marathi, encouraged radical social, economic and political actions to change the thought processes of his Maharashtrian readers. J.
Masselos essay describes the perception, and process of absorption of Western sciences, particularly medicine, in mid-neneteenth-century cosmopolitian Bombay. R.N. Dandekar contends that Sir R.G. Bhandarkars historical objectivity introduced scientific study of Indias past. Philip Engblom discusses how truly modern Marathi poetry was influenced by English models in the late nineteenth century. Through the letters exchanged beween three friends, I.M.P. Raeside gives an insight into a private world of a Marathi novelist, Hari Narayan Apte, whom he calls a closet reformist. In the three letters of Govind Babaji Joshi, a profile of a stubborn nineteenth-century social reformer, who stood by his convictions to flaunt the jati rules, is bared by N.K. Wagle, Pratibha Bhattacharya contrasts the socially radical writing of the two famous Maharashtrian reformers, Agarkar and Lokahitvadi, and praises the former for his constructive criticism of society. Meera Kosambi and H. Kotani examine the conscious acceptance of Christianity by Baba Padmanji and Pundita Ramabai as an alternative intellectually and spiritually satisfying venues for social action.
Ramabais missionary zeal in the end resulted in the establishment of schools and shelters for women of Maharashtra.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- From Reformism to Interest Group Pluralism: The Relevance of the Non-Brahman Movement for an Understanding of Contemporary Maharashtra by Jayant K. Lele
- Maharashtra Dharma and the Nationalist Movement in Maharashtra by Rajendra Vora
- Pre-Ambedkar Untouchable Liberation Movement in Maharashtra by Uttam Bhoite
- Deshabhakta: The Leaders of the Italian Independence Movement in the Eyes of Marathi Nationalists by E. Fasana
- Bhau Mahajan and his Prabhakar, Dhumketu and Dnyan Darshan: A Study in Maharashtrian Response to British Rule by J.V. Naik
- The Bombay Chronicle: Competing Images of Division and Unity in the Indian Nationalist Movement, 1920-30 by Milton Israel
- Dr George Buist of the Bombay Times: A Study of the Self-Proclaimed Messianism of an Anglo-Indian Editor, 1840-57 by Aroon Tikekar
- The Discourse from the Other Side: Perceptions of Science and Technology in Western India in the Nineteenth Century by J. Masselos
- Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar and the Academic Renaissance in Maharashtra by R.N. Dandekar
- Vishnu Moreshwar Mahajani and Nineteenth-Century Antecedents to Keshavsut by Philip Engblom
- Agarkar, Apte, and the Kanitkars by I.M.P. Raeside
- An Overview of the Reformist Movement in Maharashtra with Special Reference to Lokahitvadi and Gopal G. Agarkar by Pratibha Bhattacharya
- The Passage from Hinduism to Christianity: The Case of Baba Padmanji by H. Kotani
- Pundita Ramabai and Social Reform in Maharashtra by Meera Kosambi
- Three Letters of Govind Babaji Joshi on Inter-jati Marriage in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra by N.K. Wagle
- Contributors
- Index.
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