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Elmore, Mark.

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States of religion: Postcolonialism, power, and the formation of Himachal Pradesh (India).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	States of religion: Postcolonialism, power, and the formation of Himachal Pradesh (India)./
Author:	Elmore, Mark.
Description:	583 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2964.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	Religion, History of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3186809
ISBN:	9780542280474

States of religion: Postcolonialism, power, and the formation of Himachal Pradesh (India).
Elmore, Mark.

States of religion: Postcolonialism, power, and the formation of Himachal Pradesh (India). - 583 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 2964.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005.

When India achieved independence in 1947, the Western Himalayas were politically, theologically, and linguistically divided into more than thirty independent areas. The next two decades witnessed a powerful effort to unify the region and erode local control culminating politically in the grant of full statehood in 1971. This political consolidation was in turn accompanied by a massive cultural transformation. My dissertation examines the cultural consolidation of the Western Himalayas through the creation of new institutions, practices, and fields of knowledge. Using ethnographic fieldwork in conjunction with colonial records, archival documents from government ministries, and a wide array of Hindi texts from the early nineteen fifties onward, I examine what happens to local deity traditions once they are included within the armature of the state. The argument of the dissertation is thus two-fold. On the one hand, I examine how the discourses and interdictions of the state have transformed local religious practice, reshaping ritual and decreasing dependence on local deity institutions. On the other, I examine how the very constitution of the state is itself tied to the practices and everyday talk in those very 'religious' spaces.

ISBN: 9780542280474Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017471
Religion, History of.

States of religion: Postcolonialism, power, and the formation of Himachal Pradesh (India).
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