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100 _a"Banerjee-Dube, Ishita"
245 0 _a"Religion, law and power"
260 _aLondon
260 _bAnthem Press
260 _c2007
300 _a225p.
365 _b9000
365 _dRS
520 _aThis book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical community over a hundred and forty year period, ;Religion, Law and Power; explores the interplay of distinct expressions of time and history, innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism and distinct engagements with state and nation. This serves to unravel the wider entanglements of religion, history, law, modernity and power
650 _aPolitics and religion-India-1860-2000
942 _cB
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