عنوان

Ordering subjects: Merchants, the state, and Krishna devotion in eighteenth-century Marwar

شماره

TL48402

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Ordering subjects: Merchants, the state, and Krishna devotion in eighteenth-century Marwar

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Divya Cherian

نام ساير پديدآوران

Dirks, Nicholas B.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Columbia University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2015

نام خاص و کميت اثر

366

متن يادداشت

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-05015-7

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

نظم درجات

History

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Columbia University

امتياز متن

2015

متن يادداشت

"Ordering Subjects" argues that the merchants of Marwar led efforts to demarcate a new, exclusive community of elites, one that they conceptualized of as self-consciously 'Hindu' and forged through the application of state power. This early modern Hindu community defined itself in opposition not to the figure of the Muslim but to that of the 'Untouchable,' a category that included but was not limited to the Muslim. The early modern Hindu identity was thus deeply imagined in caste terms. This elite community organized around Krishna devotion, especially the Vallabh Sampraday, and demarcated itself through cultural markers such as the practice of vegetarianism, teetotalism, and austerity. Merchants, often joined by brahmans, waged their battles for the demarcation of this new community by petitioning the crown and by successfully deploying the control that they had gained in prior centuries over the state apparatus as bureaucrats. State power, consisting of its judicial, fiscal, recordkeeping, and surveillance mechanisms, played a central role in the implementation of laws and regulations, including spatial, economic, social, and ritual segregation, enforced vegetarianism, and the moral policing of elite subjects' lives. Most of these petitions and state responses were legitimized with reference to ethics, marking a departure from the until-then prevalent emphasis on custom as the basis for legislating society. "Ordering Subjects" suggests that this marked a shift towards a more universal law and that the turn to ethical principles made possible the disregard for the force of custom that these departures marked. Further, the dissertation demonstrates that these processes enabled the ascendance of a mercantile ethos as the preeminent cultural code of the region, displacing that of the warrior and modifying that of the brahman. Lastly, it shows the extent to which the state in eighteenth century Marwar had penetrated society and was capable of intervening in it using surveillance and judicial methods.

موضوع مستند نشده

Religious history; History; South Asian Studies

اصطلاح موضوعی

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Caste;Eighteenth century;Hindus;India;Krishna;Vaishnav

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McCaffrey, Charles A.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dirks, Nicholas B.

تقسيم فرعي

History

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Columbia University

شماره بازیابی

1721464444; 3722720

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y