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...Manuela Ciotti Abstract This article examines Dalit (ex-untouchable) and low-caste women activists within the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Underrepresented in Indian political history, these women frequently portray political activities as seva or social...

..., 230 pp. $17.00 (cloth). This book focuses on the extraordinary emotional bond between devotee and icon in the Pushtimarg (a devotional cult popular among the urban business castes). It provides copious detail and original data on the intricacies of seva ("service") of the deity, which differs from...

... extension officers (one each for agriculture, animal husbandry, rural engineering, social education, programme for women and children, co-operation, rural industries, panchayats), a medical officer, ten Gram Seva\s (village level workers), and other supporting staff. All Stage I samitis work within...

...Himanshu Prabha Ray Hinduism and the Religious Arts . By Heather Elgood . London : Cassell , 1998 . 288 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 746 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ramakrishna Mission's orientation to seva (service to others...

... as that of Sarada Devi, the founder's wife. Unfortunately, this essay is more descriptive than analytical. Gwilym Beckerlegge's essay on the origins of the 746 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Ramakrishna Mission's orientation to seva (service to others), analyzes the diverse and complex influences on the first...

... by a rare nine-judge bench constituted to decide on its validity ( Kantaru Rajeevaru (Right to Religion, In re-9J) v Indian Young Lawyers Association 2020 ). Further, in Aarsh Marg Seva Trust v State of Madhya Pradesh ( 2019 ), the Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that it constitutes an essential...

... Hindi as a regional literary language, but also by making it a language for discourse and ideas, supporting Hindi publications from Indian diaspora writers and claiming for it a “literary nationality” (p. 73). This reminds one of the Hindi literati in colonial times, who considered sahitya seva...

... of ethics.) With this basic framework, Copeman finds in India that the culturally attuned factors of service ( seva ) and gift ( dan ), intertwined with ideas of “virtue, service, kinship, and the nation” (p. 2), center the discourse of voluntary blood donation. Along the way, Copeman looks to the broader...

... of wealth through agriculture, animal husbandry, or trade; its special sphere of activity is to exercise productive power (vis). The Sudra twrv?d befitting its birth from the feet of Purusa ranks lowest of the four varria; its code and special sphere of activity are service (seva) of the three higher varna...

... the hegemonic interpretation of tradition as well as over the politics of exclusion among the Devi's devotees. Schaflechner's fundamental argument is that the pilgrimage to Hinglaj has been institutionalized and solidified by the Hinglaj Seva Mandali and after the construction of the MCH. As a consequence...

..., 230 pp. $17.00 (cloth). This book focuses on the extraordinary emotional bond between devotee and icon in the Pushtimarg (a devotional cult popular among the urban business castes). It provides copious detail and original data on the intricacies of seva ("service") of the deity, which differs from...

... landscape of Vraja that Margaret Case provides her ethnographic description of the "religious world of a Brahman family." In Seeing Krishna, Margaret Case richly details the household and temple seva or service to the family deity {istadeva) observed by the Goswami family. This influential brahman family...

... leaders and of the movement as seen through the eyes of these leaders." (p. 25). The term "leaders" is operationally defined by the authors as "those occupying at the date of the survey April, 1965 the following offices of the Sarva Seva Sangh: members, whether elected or invited, of the Prabandh Samiti...

... religious concepts. It is useful to have an enlightened description of the Adi Granth and other texts, satsang worship, practices of wearing the "five k's," theological and ethical concepts of nam Stmran and seva (and it is especially helpful to have translations appended of Sikh liturgy and official...

... by Vallabhacharya in the late fteenth century, Pushtimarg is part of the movement of devotional Hinduism (bhakti), which stresses an intimate relationship with a personal god. The Pushtimargis focus on the youthful Krishna as a charming and fascinating child and young man and emphasize seva, or service...

... and emphasize seva, or service to the deity, which takes the form of elaborate attention and interactive theatrical ritual in the care of the god. The main temple of Nathadwara is home to Shri Nathji, an important iconographic image of Krishna. Against this background, Lyons examines the lives and practice...

... China and Europe to South Asia. In “Resurrecting Seva (Social Service): Dalit and Low-caste Women Party Activists as Producers and Consumers of Political Culture and Practice in Urban North India,” M anuela C iotti uses the lens of gender and assumptions about proper male and female roles...

... questionnaire, the book purports to be a "study of the movement's leaders and of the movement as seen through the eyes of these leaders." (p. 25). The term "leaders" is operationally defined by the authors as "those occupying at the date of the survey April, 1965 the following offices of the Sarva Seva Sangh...

... with the principal management carried on from Calcutta. The name of the managing body of the temple is the Rani Sati Seva Sangh, which has established hundreds of temples across India and even abroad. Temples also are found in New York, Nepal, Singapore, and Rangoon. The fact that the headquarters 8Temple...

... 1 : 84 – 93 . Jośī Madanlāl , ed. 1962 . Dādāvaṛī-Digdarśan . Bombay : Pratāpmal Sethiyā (Srījindattsūri Sevā Sangh). Kalpasūtra . 1994 . Editor and Hindi translator, Mahopadhyaya Vinaya Sagar . English translation by Lath Mukund . Jaipur : Prakrit Bharati . Laidlaw...