LEADER 04350nam 22005653 450 001 9910584585303321 005 20230515084602.0 010 $a1-317-74473-X 010 $a1-317-74474-8 010 $a1-315-79451-9 035 $a(CKB)5600000000080788 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90527 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7244626 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7244626 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000080788 100 $a20230515d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Transformation of Tamil Religion $eRamalinga Swamigal (1823-1874) and Modern Dravidian Sainthood 210 1$aMilton :$cTaylor & Francis Group,$d2019. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 electronic resource (358 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge South Asian religion series ;$v20 311 $a1-138-01523-7 327 $aIntroduction -- Part I: Retrieving Ramalinga Swamigal: 1. Pulavar to Prophet. A 19th century Religious Life -- 2. Ramalingar the Master and the Cittar -- 3. The Context of Compassion -- 4. Hunger and Compassion: the Ci?vaka?run?ya ol?ukkam -- 5. Anti-Hagiography -- Part II: Re-creating Ramalinga Swamigal: 6. S?aiva Ferment -- 7. The Life and Times of N?a?n?iya?r A?t?ikal? (1873-1942) -- 8. Tiru.Vi.Ka: Ramalingar's Camaracam as Radical Equality -- 9. Ma?. Po. Ci: Ramalinga Swamigal and Dravidian Sainthood -- 10. Ramalingar Redux -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. 330 $aThis book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil ?aivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga?s own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th ?mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal?s ideology of compassion, c?vak?ru?yam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil ?aivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity ? Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, South Asian history and literature and Subaltern studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315794518 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. 410 0$aRoutledge South Asian Religion Series 606 $aHinduism$2bicssc 606 $aEthnic studies$2bicssc 606 $aRegional studies$2bicssc 607 $aIndia$xReligion$y19th century 608 $aBiographies.$2fast 610 $aHinduism 610 $aEthnic studies 610 $aRegional studies 615 7$aHinduism 615 7$aEthnic studies 615 7$aRegional studies 676 $a294.5/5 700 $aRaman$b Srilata$01251872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910584585303321 996 $aThe transformation of Tamil religion$92901796 997 $aUNINA