Eleanor Zelliot

Maxine Berntsen

This book presents multi-faceted images of religious experience in the Marathi-speaking region of India. In addition to Irawati Karves classic, On the Road, about her pilgrimage to Pandharpur, there are three essays by Karve that appear in English for the first time. Here is possession by gods and ghosts, an actual sermon by an inspired saint in the traditional bhajan style, and an autobiographical account of the religious nationalism of the militant R.S.S. These are engaging, true-to-life accounts of the lives of individual Hindus. Essays and imaginative literature, a poem, and a short story interplay the ideas, concepts, personalities, practices, rituals, and deities of Hinduism in a surprisingly coherent manner.

Essays on Religion in Maharashtra

Experience of Hinduism, The

On the Dalit Movement started by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1892-1956, Indian statesman and social reformer, in Maharashtra.

Essays on the Ambedkar Movement

From Untouchable to Dalit

Rohini Mokashi-Punekar

This Volume Brings To Light The Phenomenon Of Religious Voices From The Lowest Orders Of Indian Society: Nandanar And Tirupan Alvar In The South; Chokhamela And His Entire Family In Marathi Territory; And, Most Famous Of All, Ravidas In The North. Each Saint Was Born Untouchable And That Fact Is Essential Part Of His And Her Life And Song. The Mixture Of Bhakti Texts And Contemporary Comment Results In An Unusual And Lively Discussion Of An Important Facet Of Indian Religious Life.

An Indian Phenomenon

Untouchable Saints

Manu Belur Bhagavan

Anne Feldhaus

Manu Bhagavan

On the religious sentiments and intellectual life of Dalits of India; contributed articles honoring the memory of Eleanor Zelliot, b.1926.

Religion, Caste, and the Subaltern Question in India

'Speaking Truth to Power'

Gail Omvedt

Vasant Moon

'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies

Eleanor Zelliot

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