Title Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition / David Arnold

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) : illustrations Contents Burning issues -- Colonial necropolitics and the polysemic corpse -- The city and its dead -- Consuming fire -- The global dead -- The rebirth of cremation -- Cremation and the nation -- Epilogue : rethinking the Hindu Pyre Summary "Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the "traditional" practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. The book examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and it explores the struggle for the official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, David Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasingly social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 06, 2021) Subject Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies -- India Cremation -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism. Cremation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Hinduism -- Customs and practices HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia Death and burial of a person Cremation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Cremation -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism Hindu funeral rites and ceremonies Hinduism -- Customs and practices SUBJECT India -- Religious life and customs India -- Death and burial -- History -- 19th century Subject India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020026924 ISBN 0520976649 9780520976641

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