SACRED SYMBOL AS MOBILIZING IDEOLOGY - THE NORTH INDIAN SEARCH FOR A HINDU COMMUNITY
SACRED SYMBOL AS MOBILIZING IDEOLOGY - THE NORTH INDIAN SEARCH FOR A HINDU COMMUNITY
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DOI：
10.1017/s0010417500009567
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发表时间：
1980-01-01
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
FREITAG, SB
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作者：
FREITAG, SB
印度人总是通过他们的种姓和祖传的村庄来识别自己：“我们家是来自旁遮普邦西部农村的哈特里斯。”穆鲁德曾经是一个相当繁荣的村庄，也是我的故乡。然而，在十九世纪后期，一种超越这些地方属性的重要的新的群体身份认同过程开始成为南亚社会历史的特征。这在一定程度上是由于一个外来的英国政府努力识别印度社会的组成单位。借鉴欧洲的历史经验，管理者将“印度教”和“穆斯林”的集体标签应用于远离同类社区的群体。
Always have Indians identified themselves by their caste, by theirancestral village: “Our family were Khatris from the West Punjabcountryside.” “Murud, at one time a fairly prosperous village, is mynative place.” In the late nineteenth century, however, an important new process of forging group identities which transcended these local attributions came to characterize South Asian social history. This was in part prompted by the efforts of an alien British administration to identify the constituent units in Indian society. Drawing on European historical experience, the administrators applied the collective labels "Hindu" and "Muslim" to groups who were far from homogeneous communities.