Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten
Rethinking the Secular in Kerala
Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-009-77448-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Entangled Sovereignties is a rich volume that attempts to rethink the meanings and modalities of sovereignty in South Asia through the lens of Kerala's historical and contemporary political formations. Focusing on the entwined religious and secular logics, it draws attention to how diverse actors – from deities and communities to state agents and market forces – assert sovereign claims in social, ritual, and political life. Through a multidisciplinary engagement spanning ethnography, textual analysis, and historical inquiry, the book challenges dominant state-centric understandings of sovereignty. It foregrounds everyday, contested, layered expressions of authority that exceed the monopoly of violence, offering a new vocabulary to engage with questions of power, legitimacy, and moral reasoning in postcolonial democracies. From Christian reformers and Sunni traditionalists to fisher communities and communist appropriations of ritual, the book examines how sovereignty is asserted and negotiated across time and domains.
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Entangled Sovereignties in Kerala: An Introduction F. Osella, R. Santhosh, J. Devika and V. J. Varghese; Part I. Kerala's Multiple Sovereignties: 1. 1. Sin of the King: Early Modern Kingship and the Deification of Victimhood in Malabar Abhilash Malayil; 2. Syrian Christians and the Sacred Secular: South Indian Con-texts Bivitha Easo; 3. Layers of Gendered Sovereignty: An Ottoman Letter to an Arakkal Queen, 1780 CE Mahmood Kooria; 4. Embodied Charisma in Malappatt: Saintly Piety and Sacred Sovereignty in the Mappila Mindscape of Colonial Malabar Muhammed Niyas Ashraf; Part II. Colonial and Post-colonial Reconstitution of the Social: 1. The Möbius Strip of Spirit and Matter: Abolition, Slave Agency, and Missionary Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Travancore, South India Vivek Narayan; 2. From Social to Secular: Transformation of Political Practices in Keralam Sunandan K. N.; 3. Power, Gender, and the Birth of the Modern Malayali Family J. Devika and Anamika Ajay Part III. The Making of a Secular Social Body: 1. Secular Politics and Popular Religiosity: Interrogating the Communist Narrative on Theyyam in North Malabar, Kerala V. U. Nirmala; 2. To Labour for the World: Indo-German Documentaries and the Historical Migration of Kerala Nurses Darshana Sreedhar Mini; 3. Intersecting Religious and Secular Sovereignties: Land Reclamation, Agrarian Expansion and New Subjectivities in South India V. J. Varghese; 4. Affective Memory and Melancholia: Reading the Visual Rhetoric of Christianity in Kerala Ambili Anna Markose; 5. Between the Relic and the Republic: The Case of the Markaz Knowledge City Visakh M. S.; 6. Contested Sovereignties on the Kerala Coast: Popular Protests Against the Construction of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport Johnson Jament and Filippo Osella; Part IV. Affirming and Contesting More-than-Human Sovereignties: 1. Socio-Religious Reforms, 'Hindu' Identity Consolidation and Transformation of the Temple Space in Kodungallur Dayal Paleri and R. Santhosh; 2. Sovereign Deities and Their Rule: Hindu Temples in Contemporary Kerala O. B. Roopesh; 3. Transformative Temple Entry Jurisprudence? Deepa Das Acevedo.
