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Are we Hindus? Religion in contemporary Tamil Dalit discourse
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SYSNO ASEP 0505199 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Ostatní články Title Are we Hindus? Religion in contemporary Tamil Dalit discourse Author(s) Hons, Pavel (OU-W) RID, SAI, ORCID Source Title Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal. - : Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego
Roč. 8, č. 2 (2018), s. 273-288Number of pages 16 s. Publication form Online - E Language eng - English Country PL - Poland Keywords Dalits ; Hinduism ; Hindu identity ; Indian culture ; religion Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Religious studies R&D Projects GA16-02363S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Open access Institutional support OU-W - RVO:68378009 DOI 10.24917/20841043.8.2.2 Annotation Based primarily on original sources in Tamil as well as interviews, the article seeks to portray
the attitude of Tamil Dalit intellectuals and political leaders towards the question of religion.
It seeks to discover the role of religion in their discourse and how they utilise religious matters
to mobilise their fellow caste members. It maps their efforts to distance themselves from
Hinduism and to propagate the particularity of Dalit deities and Dalit religion as a part of their
newly constructed identity. Their opinions on the possibility of conversion are also briefly
noted. These attitudes are examined from the viewpoint of the differing emancipation strategies
of the three major Tamil Dalit castes. The Paraiyar as well as the Arunthaiyar leaders try
to reject the Hindu identity, though the common folk consider themselves to be Hindus. The
Devendrars on the contrary associate themselves with the Hindu gods and Hindu temples, they
claim direct connection with some of them. Even they, however, tend to emphasise particularity
of their deities as a part of their identity buildingWorkplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://studiadecultura.up.krakow.pl/index.php/argument-journal/article/view/6713
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