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Ethnology --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- India --- Social conditions --- 1947 --- -Ethnology - India. --- India - Social conditions - 1947 --- -Ethnology --- Caste --- Ethnology - India.

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Dalits --- Catholics --- Parhaiyas (Indic people) --- Ethnology --- -Dalits --- -Depressed classes (South Asia) --- Harijans --- Scheduled castes (India) --- Untouchables --- Caste --- Christians --- -Catholics --- Depressed classes (South Asia) --- Dalits - India - Tamil Nadu --- Catholics - India - Tamil Nadu --- Ethnology - India - Tamil Nadu

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Itinerant white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to lead lives of complete non-violence. In their communities, Jain ascetics play key roles as teachers and exemplars of the truth; they are embodiments of the lokottar - the realm of the transcendent. Based on thirteen months of fieldwork in the town of Ladnun, Rajasthan, India, among a community of Terapanthi Svetambar Jains, this book explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi ascetic community, and examines the central role ascetics play in upholding the Jain moral order. Focussing on the Terapanthi moral universe from the perspective of female renouncers, Vallely considers how Terapanthi Jain women create their own ascetic subjectivities, and how they construct and understand themselves as symbols of renunciation. The first in-depth ethnographic study of this important and influential Jain tradition, this work makes a significant contribution to Jain studies, comparative religion, Indian studies, and the anthropology of South Asian religion.

Terehpanth (Jaina sect) --- Jaina women --- Asceticism --- Ascetics --- Ethnology --- Persons --- Women, Jaina --- Women --- Terāpantha (Jaina sect) --- Jaina sects --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Jainism. --- Jaina women - India - Ladnun. --- Asceticism - Jainism. --- Ascetics - India - Ladnun. --- Ethnology - India - Ladnun. --- Rajasthan --- India --- Terapanth. --- Jainism --- Jain ascetic communities --- ascetic women --- teh Terapanthi Order --- laukik --- lokottar --- symbolism

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Nepal --- India --- Pakistan --- Ethnology --- Anthropologie sociale et culturelle --- South Asia --- Inde --- Asie méridionale --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- -Ethnology --- -India --- -South Asia --- 954 --- -Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Geschiedenis van India en Pakistan --- -Asia, South --- Indian Sub-continent --- Indian Subcontinent --- Southern Asia --- Orient --- Social life and customs. --- -Geschiedenis van India en Pakistan --- -Social life and customs. --- 954 Geschiedenis van India en Pakistan --- -954 Geschiedenis van India en Pakistan --- Cultural anthropology --- Asie méridionale --- Caste --- Asia, South --- Asia, Southern --- 954 History of the Indian subcontinent --- History of the Indian subcontinent --- Ethnology - India --- Ethnology - South Asia --- India - Social life and customs --- South Asia - Social life and customs

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Susan Wadley first visited Karimpur—the village "behind mud walls" made famous by William and Charlotte Wiser—as a graduate student in 1967. She returned often, adding her observations and experiences to the Wisers' field notes from the 1920s and 1930s. In this long-awaited book, Wadley gives us a work of unprecedented scope: a portrait of an Indian village as it has changed over a sixty-year period.She hears of changes in agriculture, labor relations, education, and the family. But Karimpur's residents do not speak with one voice in describing the ways their lives have changed—viewpoints vary considerably depending on the speaker's gender, economic status, and caste. Using cultural documents such as songs and stories, as well as data on household budgets and farming practices, Wadley examines what it means to be poor or rich, female or male. She demonstrates that the forms of subordination prescribed for women are paralleled by those prescribed for lower castes.Villagers also speak of political struggles in India, and of the importance of religion when confronting change. Their stories, songs, and life histories reveal the rich fabric of Karimpur and show how much can be learned from listening to its people.

Ethnology --- Villages --- Families --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Hamlets (Villages) --- Village government --- Cities and towns --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Maipuri (India : District) --- Karimpur (India) --- Social conditions. --- Rural conditions. --- Ethnology - India - Karimpur --- Villages - India - Karimpur --- Families - India - Karimpur --- Social change - India - Karimpur --- Karimpur (India) - Social conditions --- agriculture. --- caste. --- cultural documents. --- economic status. --- education. --- family. --- female or male. --- gender. --- household budgets and farming practices. --- importance of religion. --- karimpurs residents. --- karimpurthe. --- labor relations. --- political struggles in india. --- poor or rich. --- portrait of indian village. --- sixty year period. --- songs and stories. --- Ethnology. --- Families. --- Social change. --- Villages.