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20230921142224.0 |
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MSU |
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MSU |
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rda |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
VISWANATH, Rupa |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Emergence of Authenticity Talk and the Giving of Accounts |
| Remainder of title |
Conversion as Movement of the Soul in South India, ca. 1900 |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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Cambridge |
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Cambidge University Press |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2013 |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Comparative Studies in Society and History |
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In 2002, the Indian state of Tamil Nadu passed a law that illustrates the centrality of what may be called “authentic religious selves” to postcolonial Indian statecraft. It banned religious conversions brought about by what it termed “material allurement,” and it especially targeted those who might attempt to convert impoverished Dalits, descendants of unfree laborers who now constitute India's lowest castes. Conversion, thus conceived, is itself founded upon the idea that the self must be autonomous; religion ought to be freely chosen and not brought about by “allurement.” Philosophers like Charles Taylor have provided accounts of how selfhood of this kind became lodged in the Western imaginaire, but how was it able to take hold in very different social configurations, and to what effect? By attending to this more specific history, this essay brings a correlated but widely overlooked question to center stage: under what distinctive circumstances are particular selves called upon to actively demonstrate their autonomy and authenticity by divulging putatively secreted contents? In colonial South India, I will argue, the problem of authentic conversion only captured the public imagination when Dalit conversions to Christianity in colonial Madras threatened the stability of the agrarian labor regimes to which they were subject. And today, as in nineteenth-century Madras, it is Dalit selfhood that remains an object of intense public scrutiny and the target of legal interventions. |
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movements |
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authenticity talk |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417512000606 |
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Library of Congress Classification |
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Journal Article |