CiNii Books - Mārga : ways of liberation, empowerment, and social change in Maharashtra

This volume which provides a comprehensive overview to Maharashtrian culture and society is divided into four sections. Section I includes articles dealing with the tradition of Maharashtra, life and thinking of Jnanesvara (Dnyaneshwar) and Eknath in particular, and in a figurative sense, that of B R Ambedkar as an admirer of the sant tradition, especially of Tukaram. Three articles in Section II discuss the cultural problems involving languages, specifically the relationships between the high (elite) languages, such as Sanskrit, Persian and English, and a popular language like Marathi. How the elite languages and the culture based on them were related to the way of life of ordinary people is the focal point. Other articles in Section II deal with ideologies and movements for social reform in modern Maharashtra including the problem of women's emancipation. Section III contains articles dealing with politico-social and politico-cultural movements in modern and contemporary Maharashtra, a symbolic concept of which is satyagraha, though the implications of the term are multifarious. Articles in Section IV explore the religious practices of Maharashtrians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as all-India level pilgrimage like tristhaliyatra (pilgrimage to Varanasi, Gaya and Prayaga) as well as local-level ones like those to Pandharpur and more minor sacred places in Maharashtra. The volume will be indispensable for scholars working on South Asian religion and culture.

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Preface
Ganesh at the Crossroads: Reflections on Dnyaneshwar's Theory of Dialogue
A Way to Liberation: Kundaliniyoga in the Jnanesvari
Bhakti Marga of Jnanesvara: Social Aspect of his Advaita-Bhakti
Hindu-Muslim Dialogue: A Rereading of Sant Eknath and Sant Shaikh Muhammad
Dr Ambedkar's Path to Buddhism: A Marg to Navayana?
No Marga to Svarga?: The Sati Failure Case in Late Eighteenth-Century North Deccan
Margi, Desi and Yavani: High Language and Ethnic Speech in Maharashtra
Locality and Universality of Vernaculars: A Study of Language Learning among the East India Company's Civil Servants
Paths to Progress: Gender and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra
Naoroji Furdoonji and the 'Young Bombay Party': Reflections on the Early Debate on Reform in Western India
Way of Making Writer's Own Literary World: With Special Reference to Professor Keshav Meshram and Dalit Literature
The Ways of Satyagraha in Bombay, 1930
Taking the Non-Violent Path: A Story of the Anti-Dam Satyagrahi
Marg Shetkari Ladhyacha: The Agitational Means of a Peasant Movement
Mukati Kon Pathe: Emancipation, Which Way?
Lavani, Tamasha, Loknatya and the Vicissitudes of Patronage
An Enterprise Called Faith? Tale of a Devasthan in Maharashtra
Marg(a)kraman of Maharashtrian Princely Families: A Search for Self within the Boundaries Made for Others
Pilgrimage of Pandharpur: Pathway (Marg) to Better Social Life
Two Maharashtrian Ways of Performing Devotion: The Naradiya and Varkari Kirtan
Walking and Thinking
Mariai Cult in Pune.

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