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With Respect to Sex
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India—individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. T...
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Source Book Modern Hinduism
Published in the year 2004, Source Book Modern Hinduism is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.
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From Prosperity to Decline
Impact of trade on the economy of Bengal in 18th century.
Studies in Islamic Cultural History
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs
Offers a translation, examination and commentary of the Caryapada' collection of tantric songs of the 8th to 12th centuries. This study collects songs known as 'Caryagiti', 'songs of realization', or more literally 'songs of right action', referring to the edition discovered in 1907 at the Nepal Royal Library. This is a translation, examination and commentary of the 'Caryapada' collection of tantric songs of the 8th to 12th centuries by one of the world's leading scholars. The subject of this study is a small (49 padas) collection of songs known as 'Caryagiti','
Queer Forster
This groundbreaking volume presents a radical revision of gay criticism and focuses on E. M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. Many previous critics of Forster downplayed his homosexuality or read Forster naively in terms of gay liberation. This collection situates Forster within the Bloomsbury Group and examines his relations to major figures such as Henry James, Edward Carpenter, and Virginia Woolf. Particular attention is paid to Forster's several accounts of India and their troubled relation to the British colonial enterprise. Analyzing a wide range of Forster's work, the authors examine material from Forster's undergraduate writings to stories written more than a half-century later. A landmark book for the study of gender in literature, Queer Forster brings the terms "queer" and "gay" into conversation, opening up a dialogue on wider dimensions of theory and allowing a major revaluation of modernist inventions of sexual identity.
