The Subhedar's Son: A Narrative of Brahmin-Christian Conversion from Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra

ISBN-13: 9780190914042 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 272 str.

Deepra Dandekar

Opis

This is an annotated translation of an award-winning 1895 Marathi novel entitled The Subhedar's Son by the Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. The novel provides a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed. The novel's historical context allows modern researchers to appreciate the particularity of regional and vernacular Indian Christianity.

Recenzje

In this book, the author draws her observations about Brahmin conversion from a larger literary corpus whose contours she mediates to the reader. In the process, we gain access to valuable perspectives on a community of converts that is often overlooked in the study of Indian Christianity. The book's provocative questions make an important intervention in studies of religious conversion in India.

O autorze

Deepra Dandekar completed her training in history, anthropology and archaeology at Delhi University (St. Stephen's College) and Deccan College, Pune. Subsequently, she trained as an internee at various Non-Governmental Organizations in Pune on research projects concerning gender, religion and health. She has researched and published on women's health rituals, and the religious expression of political minorities in Maharashtra at the South Asia Institute and the Cluster for Excellence, University of Heidelberg. She is currently working on the research project on migration and exclusion at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin.