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Milind Brahme

Bio: Milind Brahme is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 4 citations.

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TL;DR: This paper explored the singing and dancing of pey, a dual spirit (benevolent and malevolent) found in the folktales from Kaṟisial Kadi (the area around Tuticorin district in southern Tamil Nadu, India) as embodying aesthetics of excess.
Abstract: The article explores the singing and dancing of pey, a dual spirit (benevolent and malevolent) found in the folktales from Kaṟisial Kādu (the area around Tuticorin district in southern Tamil Nadu, India) as embodying aesthetics of excess. The tales have been collected by Ki. Rajanarayanan in Naṭupuṟa Katai Kalañiyaṃ (repository of folktales). Although a dual spirit, pey belongs to the sacred in Kaṟisial Kādu. The divine world of Kaṟisial Kādu populated by folk deities conceptualizes sacred differently from the scriptural religion and its pantheon of pan-Indian deities. This divide in the divine world becomes apparent in an aesthetic that characterizes the singing and dancing of the pey in these stories. As a response to and a manifestation of an excess it disturbs composure and does not fit into the controlled and transcendental aesthetics of Nāṭyaśāstra. The paper studies this deviant aesthetics associated with the singing and dancing of pey and its function in Kaṟisial Kādu through the lens of the Nietzchean category of the Dionysian.

4 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the development of Muslim society in Tamilnad and the creation of Muslim community in south India is discussed. But the authors do not discuss the role of the Indian Christians in this process.
Abstract: Preface List of maps Note on transliteration Abbreviations Glossary Introduction 1. South Indian religion and society 2. The development of Muslim society in Tamilnad 3. The Muslim religious tradition in south India 4. The south Indian state and the creation of Muslim community 5. Warrior martyr pirs in the eighteenth century 6. The final period of nawabi rule in the Carnatic 7. South Indian Christians in the pre-colonial period 8. The collapse of Syrian Christian 'integration' 9. The Christian Paravas of southern Tamilnad 10. Christian saints and gurus in the poligar country 11. Christianity and colonial rule in the Tamil hinterland 12. Conclusion Bibliography.

144 citations

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06 Jul 1984-JAMA
TL;DR: The fortunate reader is carried into a vivid and detailed experience of Islamic uranic soul knowledge and soul force, Hindu temple healing at Balaji, Dravidian shamans, Tibetan demonology, and the devotional mysticism of the sect of Radha Soami Satsang of Beas.
Abstract: This book, published by the Unitarian Universalist Association of Boston, is the result of a three-year study of traditional mental health and healing systems in India. The work was supported by the Homi Bhabha Fellowship. The fortunate reader is carried into a vivid and detailed experience of Islamic uranic soul knowledge and soul force, Hindu temple healing at Balaji, Dravidian shamans, Tibetan demonology, the devotional mysticism of the sect of Radha Soami Satsang of Beas, Tantra texts and healing, the cult of Primal Power Mata Nirmala Devi, Who Is God, and of Ayurveda and an Ayurvedic mental hospital at Jharsetli. Each system is well described from a structural-theoretical standpoint, and from the actual experience of patients, practitioners, and observers. Each system is then examined in the overall Indian medical context, and in Western (Christian, psychoanalytic, and medical) idiom. Most readers will find this journey to India fascinating and Sudhir Kakar

80 citations

01 Jan 2016
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11 citations