Popular Religion and Ascetic Practices: New Studies on Mahima Dharma, India

by Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Johannes Beltz

German scholarship on a religious sect in Orissa. anthropology, analysis of religious developments, relationship with Hindu traditions. includes documents. Also useful on colonial history and cultural change.

265 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2008

About the author

Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor of History at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), Mexico, where she holds the highest rank. Her authored books include Divine Affairs (2001), Religion, Law, and Power (2007) and, in Spanish, Fronteras del Hinduismo (2007). Among her eight edited volumes are Unbecoming Modern (2005), Caste in History (2008) and Ancient to Modern (2009).