Concretely imagining the Southern Digambar Jain community, 1899-1920

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 523-548

  Carrithers, Michael ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x00016589     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London, 1983). It is important to note that the idea of an imagined community does in fact fit nicely with ethnicity as well as with nationalism, as was argued in M. Carrithers and C. Humphrey, The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society (Cambridge, 1991).
2. B. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London, 1983). It is important to note that the idea of an imagined community does in fact fit nicely with ethnicity as well as with nationalism, as was argued in M. Carrithers and C. Humphrey, The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society (Cambridge, 1991).
3. It is difficult to think of this period in India's history - or of any period, for that matter - without thinking of Windisch's remark that society is not just characterized by, but is actually constituted of, 'conflictual' relations, See U. Windisch, Speech and Reasoning in Everyday Life (Cambridge, 1990).
4. M. Carrithers, 'Passions of Nation and Community in the Bahubali Affair', Modern Asian Studies 22, 4 (1988), pp. 815-44.
5. Carrithers and Humphrey, Assembly of Listeners.
6. A sensitive treatment of what happens when a sense of ethnicity becomes salient appears in D. Gupta's discussion of Sikh ethnicity in the Punjab: 'Ethnic Imagos and their Correlative Spaces', Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 26, 2 (1993), pp. 195-222.
7. P. Dundas, The Jains (London. 1992).
8. Pragati, 12 August 1919.
9. Ibid.
10. F. Conlon. A Caste in a Changing World (Berkeley, 1977).
11. A dispassionate observer might have wondered whether, or how long, the Jains of the region would retain a distinctive Jain character at all. See M. Carrithers, 'Jainism and Buddhism as Enduring Historical Steams', Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 21,2 (1990), pp. 141-63.
12. Sangave, Itihās, p. 27.
13. Ibid., p. 30.
14. See the chronology attached as an appendix in ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 36
16. A. B. Latthe, Introduction to Jainism (Bombay, 1905).
17. Gail Omvedt, Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930 (Bombay, 1976).
18. Ibid., p. 127.
19. Sangave, Itihās, p. 393.
20. Ibid., p. 36.
21. M. Carrithers, Why Humans Have Cultures: Explaining Anthropology and Social Diversity (Oxford, 1992).
22. M. Carrithers, 'The foundations of Community among Southern Digambar Jains: an Essay on Rhetoric and Experience', in Carrithers and Humphrey, Assembly of Listeners, pp. 261-86.
23. Sangave, Itihās, p. 286.
24. Pragati, 1 May 1919.
25. Pragati, 23 November 1919.
26. Pragati, 5 February 1920.
27. See D. Haynes, Rhetoric and Ritual in a Colonial Setting: The Making of Public Culture in Surat City, Western India, 1852-1928, (Berkeley, 1991).
28. Pragati, 8 and 23 December 1919.