Modern Indian kingship : tradition, legitimacy & power in Rajasthan
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Modern Indian kingship : tradition, legitimacy & power in Rajasthan
（World anthropology）
James Currey , School of American Research Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index
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: U.K. pbk ISBN 9780852559307
内容説明
Addressed not only to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India, but also to those more generally concerned with theories of kingship and ritual and the complex fate of postcolonial nation states.
This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia.
The Deregulation of Princes Act 1971, was designed to bring to an end the last vestiges of kingly rule in India. Part of a political process begun under British rule, the Act took away the royal privileges of the maharajas and sought fully to integrate them as citizens in a moderndemocracy. But today, a form of kingship persists in India even though legally kings no longer exist. Many former maharajas continue to exercise considerable power and influence at both local and national levels. This study is anexamination of the proceses by which royal power has survived and been transformed within modern India.
Focussed on the city of Jodhpur in the nothern state of Rajasthan, the study looks in particular at a set of ritual practices by which royal power is legitimated and consolidated through appeals to a fluid notion of tradition. Drawing upon fieldwork and archival research, this study brings together the disciplines of anthropology and history; it locates its ethnographic examples within broad comparative historical and religious contexts. states.
Series editors: Wendy James & Nick Allen
目次
- Introduction: Kingship without kings
- I Death Rituals Palace records & the problem of tradition
- Matampursi: legitimation through condolance ritual
- II Court Rituals Incorporation & hierarchy in court ritual: the darbar
- III Rituals Of (Political) Renewal Pilgrimage & politics: private ritual as public event
- Seed sowing: the ploughman king & the rains
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Bibliography
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: U.K. cloth ISBN 9780852559314
内容説明
Addressed not only to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India, but also to those more generally concerned with theories of kingship and ritual and the complex fate of postcolonial nation states.
This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia.
The Deregulation of Princes Act 1971, was designed to bring to an end the last vestiges of kingly rule in India. Part of a political process begun under British rule, the Act took away the royal privileges of the maharajas and sought fully to integrate them as citizens in a moderndemocracy. But today, a form of kingship persists in India even though legally kings no longer exist. Many former maharajas continue to exercise considerable power and influence at both local and national levels. This study is anexamination of the proceses by which royal power has survived and been transformed within modern India.
Focussed on the city of Jodhpur in the nothern state of Rajasthan, the study looks in particular at a set of ritual practices by which royal power is legitimated and consolidated through appeals to a fluid notion of tradition. Drawing upon fieldwork and archival research, this study brings together the disciplines of anthropology and history; it locates its ethnographic examples within broad comparative historical and religious contexts. states.
Series editors: Wendy James & Nick Allen
目次
- Introduction: Kingship without kings
- I Death Rituals Palace records & the problem of tradition
- Matampursi: legitimation through condolance ritual
- II Court Rituals Incorporation & hierarchy in court ritual: the darbar
- III Rituals Of (Political) Renewal Pilgrimage & politics: private ritual as public event
- Seed sowing: the ploughman king & the rains
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Bibliography
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: U.S. cloth ISBN 9781930618176
内容説明
This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia. It is part of the growing literature on the general anthropology of colonialism and the contemporary politics and culture of postcolonial nation states. This book asks why the descendants of the royal elite have continued to enact and sustain these royal rites and ceremonies. Why do kingly rituals possess power and meaning for those who participate in them? Why have the maharajas initiated new rites which they have performed on a large scale at critical moments of crisis?
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: U.S. pbk ISBN 9781930618183
内容説明
This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia. It is part of the growing literature on the general anthropology of colonialism and the contemporary politics and culture of postcolonial nation states. This book asks why the descendants of the royal elite have continued to enact and sustain these royal rites and ceremonies. Why do kingly rituals possess power and meaning for those who participate in them? Why have the maharajas initiated new rites which they have performed on a large scale at critical moments of crisis?
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