Time in India : concepts and practices
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Time in India : concepts and practices
（Studies in Orissan society, culture, and history, v. 6）
Manohar, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Thinking about notions of time in India still evokes images of circles and wheels symbolising the fading away of collective and individual histories into the repetitious, cyclical movement of cosmic death and rebirth. However, time is perceived and reckoned in India in many different ways mirrored in a wide spectrum of philosophical and theological interpretations, methods of calculation, mythological narratives and ritual performances. The richness of concepts and practices shows the concern for different dimensions of the experience of time in Indian cultures. The interplay between time as quality and quantity persists in many aspects of social life in India and has not been replaced by the advent of modern standardisations. Thus, ritual calendars and the concern for auspicious or inauspicious moments co-exist with other methods of time reckoning. Such as the digital clock or dynastic eras. The essays collected in this volume highlight this multiplicity by studying both notions and practices of time in relation to the different contexts in which they are enacted.
Scholars from different disciplines address these topics with regard to history, religion, methods of time-reckoning, festivals, life-cycle rituals kinship and modern historiography. The essays deal with both, pan-Indian notions and traditions located in Orissa. While there are some distinct features that relate to Orissa in particular, the regional and local traditions often draw on conceptual frameworks used in other parts of the subcontinent too.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Time Concepts, Social Identities & Historical Consciousness in Early India
- The King's Own time: The Anka System of Orissa
- Interconnecting Parallel Times: Notions of Time in the Caitanya Tradition
- Babas & Alekhs: Notes on Concepts of Time & Social Change in a Contemporary Ascetic Doctrine
- Rhythms of Life: Ritual Time & Historical Time
- Time for Ritual: The Panjis of Puri & Jajpur
- Cosmic Time & its Influence on Rona Girls & Women
- Children Sold & Thrown Away: Temporary Identifications in a Converging Tribal & Caste Society
- Memory, Performance & the Regeneration of Society Among the Koya
- Manikesvari & Dokri: Changing Representations of Two Tribal Goddesses & the Dynastic Histories of Orissa
- Casting a Glorious Past: Loss & Retrieval of the Ol Chiki Script
- Changing One's Own Identity: The Role of Language in the Transformation of a Subregional Tradition
- Imagined Chronologies: Perceptions of 'Development' as a Tool in Mapping Oriya Identity
- Index.
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