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An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, third edition, offers a comprehensive study of a contemporary form of Hinduism. Begun as a revival and reform movement in India 200 years ago, it has now become one of the fastest growing and most prominent forms of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Hindu transnational network of temples and institutions is expanding in India, East Africa, the UK, USA, Australasia, and in other African and Asian cities. The devotion, rituals, and discipline taught by its founder, Sahajanand Swami (1781-1830) and elaborated by current leaders in major festivals, diverse media, and over the Internet, help preserve ethnic and religious identity in many modern cultural and political contexts. Swaminarayan Hinduism, here described through its history, divisions, leaders, theology and practices, provides valuable case studies of contemporary Hinduism, religion, migrants, and transnationalism. This new edition includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.

Swami-Narayanis. --- Svāmī Nārāyaṇas --- Svāminārāyaṇa --- Hindu sects --- Sahajānanda, --- Narayana, --- Sahajanand, --- Swaminarayan, --- Svāminārāyaṇa, --- Neelkanth,

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State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengal, which like Kerala has been ruled by leftists but has not had the same degree of success in raising equal access to welfare, lit

Social change --- India --- Kerala (India) --- Bengal (India) --- Politics and government. --- Social policy. --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Kerala, India (State) --- Malankar (India) --- Malankara (India) --- Keralam (India) --- Kīrālā (India) --- Travancore and Cochin (India) --- lower --- caste --- princely --- travancore --- congress --- party --- narayana --- guru --- upper --- protest

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R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "authentic" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary

National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. --- Malgudi (India : Imaginary place) --- Imaginary places --- Narayan, R. K., --- Nārāyaṇa, R. K., --- Narayanswami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami --- Narayana Swami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer, --- Naraĭan, Razipuram Krishnasvami, --- Naraĭan, R. K. --- Narayansawami, Rasipuram Krishnaswamier, --- Nārāyaṇ, Ār. Kē., --- נאראיאן, ר.ק., --- נראיאן, ר. ק., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- India --- In literature. --- Malgudi (India : Imaginary place). --- Literature --- Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic --- Indian writing. --- Indianness. --- Malgudi. --- R. K. Narayan. --- cultural geography. --- fiction. --- founding figures. --- inescapability of change. --- modernity. --- non-Indian intertexts.

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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with postcolonial and postindependence trauma and whether or not the choice of a particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the ideological strategies of ";containment"; perpetuated by most Western ";orientalist"; texts and writers. She argues that the formal or generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they are using genre as an ideological ";strategy of liberation"; to help free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of ";containment"; imposed upon them. She concludes that the works studied here constitute an ideological rebuttal of Western writers' denigrating ";containment"; of non-Western cultures. She also notes that self-criticism, as implied in Rushdie's works, is not be confused with self-hatred, a theme found in Naipaul's work.

Indic fiction (English) --- Literature and society --- Imperialism in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- English fiction --- Indic literature (English) --- History and criticism --- History. --- Social aspects --- Desai, Anita, --- Narayan, R. K., --- Markandaya,Kamala, --- Rushdie, Salman --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rushdī, Salmān --- Rüşdı̂, Salman --- Ruždi, Salman --- Salamāna Raśdī --- Raśdī, Salamāna --- Рушди, Салман --- רושדי, סלמאן --- רושדי, סלמן --- رشدى، سلمان --- Anton, Joseph --- Nārāyaṇa, R. K., --- Narayanswami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami --- Narayana Swami, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer, --- Naraĭan, Razipuram Krishnasvami, --- Naraĭan, R. K. --- Narayansawami, Rasipuram Krishnaswamier, --- Nārāyaṇ, Ār. Kē., --- נאראיאן, ר.ק., --- נראיאן, ר. ק., --- Anita Desai, --- Tēcāy, An̲itā, --- An̲itā Tēcāy, --- Dēśāy, Anitā̄, --- Anitā̄ Dēśāy,