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This book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical community over a hundred and forty year period, ‘Religion, Law and Power’ explores the interplay of distinct expressions of time and history, innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism and distinct engagements with state and nation. This serves to unravel the wider entanglements of religion, history, law, modernity and power.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor of History at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México. Her several authored and edited books include ‘Divine Affairs’ (2001), ‘Unbecoming Modern’ (2006), ‘Caste in History’ (2008), ‘Ancient to Modern’ (2009), and ‘Understanding Modern India’ (forthcoming).
Preface; Maps; Introduction: Tales of Time; Formations of Faith; Poets and Texts; Ascetics, Histories and the Law; Contemporary Contours; Epilogue; Bibliography; Appendix; Glossary; Index