Ritual, caste, and religion in colonial South India / edited by Michael Bergunder, Heiko Frese, and Ulrike Schröder.

First published in Germany by Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle.

Copyright Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Performing the revival: performance and performativity in a colonial discourse in South India / Andreas Nehring. -- Saiva Siddhanta as a universal religion: J.M. Nallasvami Pullai and Hinduism in colonial South India / Michael Bergunder. -- Forging a Tamil caste: Maraimalai Adigal and the discourse of caste and ritual in colonial Tamilnadu / Ravi Vaitheespara. -- Sustaining the pre-colonial past: Saiva defiance against Christian rule in the 19th century in Jaffna / Peter Schalk. -- No religion, but ritual? Robert Caldwell and the Tinnevelly Shanars / Ulrike Schröder. -- Landscapes of Christianity in colonial South India: the matter of Hindu ritual and Christian conversion, 1870-1920 / Mary E. Hancock. -- Witnessing fun: Tamil-speaking Muslims and the imagination of ritual in colonial Southeast Asia / Torsten Tschacher. -- The agraharam: the transformation of social space and Brahman status in Tamilnadu during the colonial and postcolonial periods / C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan.

Vicissitudes of subaltern self-identification: a reading of Tamilan / Gnanasigamony Aloysius. -- 'More Kshatriya than thou!" Debating the caste and ritual ranking in colonial Tamilnadu / A.R. Venkatachalapathy. -- Soliloquizing Brahmans: Questions to a Telugu journal from the late 19th century / Heiko Frese. -- Anti-reform discourse in Andhra: cultural nationalism that failed / Vakulabharanam Rajagopal. -- Miltiple lives of a text: The Sumati śatakamu in colonial Andhra / Velcheru Narayana Rao. -- Appendices: T. Velayuda Mudaliar vs. N. Chidambaram Iyer on the message of Ramalinga Adigal. -- Sources on the contact between J.M. Nallasvami Pillai and Vivekananda.