Middle-Class Dharma
Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 June 2023
- ISBN 9780197530795
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 162x236x27 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 470
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Short description:
Middle-Class Dharma is an ethnographic study of upwardly-mobile Hindu women in urban India. Jennifer D. Ortegren explores how women's shifting lifestyle choices in the middle classes are critical for shaping Hindu traditions and identity, and in doing so, argues for how we can understand class as religious.
MoreLong description:
Middle-Class Dharma is a contemporary ethnography of class mobility among Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Focusing on women in Pulan, an emerging middle-class neighborhood of Udaipur, Jennifer D. Ortegren argues that upward class mobility is not just a socio-economic process, but also a religious one.
Central to Hindu women's upward class mobility is negotiating dharma, the moral and ethical groundings of Hindu worlds. As women experiment with middle-class consumer and lifestyle practices, they navigate tensions around what is possible and what is appropriate--that is, what is dharmic--as middle-class Hindu women. Ortegren shows how these women strategically align emerging middle-class desires with more traditional religious obligations in ways that enable them to generate new dharmic boundaries and religious selfhoods in the middle classes. Such transitions can be as joyful as they are difficult and disorienting.
Middle-Class Dharma explores how contemporary Hindu women's everyday practices reimagine and reshape Hindu traditions. By developing dharma as an analytical category and class as a dharmic category, Ortegren pushes for expanding definitions of religion in academia, both within and beyond the study of Hinduism in South Asia.
Middle-Class Dharma is a thoughtful and readable examination of class-mobility and religion in contemporary India...A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Hinduism, class and gender in India, and the study of lived religion in general.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures/Captions
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
"A Cast of Characters"
Introduction: Defining Middle-Class Dharma
1. Arranging Marriage, Negotiating Dharma
2. Solah Somwar and Conjugal Dharma
3. Karva Chauth and the Dharma of Neighbors
4. Ganesha Chaturthi and the Boundaries of Dharma
5. Dharma and Discomfort During Navaratri
6. New Neighborhood, New Dharma
Conclusion: Drawing on Dharma to Expand our Research and Teaching
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
