%0 Book %A Umamaheshwari, R. %I Springer %D 2018 %C New Delhi %G English %B Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures Ser %@ 9788132237563 %T Reading History with the Tamil Jainas: A Study on Identity, Memory and Marginalisation %U https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5247443 %X Intro -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Guide to the Transliteration Marks Used -- Tamil -- Sanskrit Consonants -- Chapter 1: On Reading History, and a Community -- 1.1 Why, and How Come, Tamil Jainas? -- 1.2 Ways of Seeing, and the Title of This Book -- 1.3 Locating Oneself -- 1.4 Two Roads -- 1.5 On 'Community' -- 1.6 Method of Enquiry and Structure of This Book -- 1.7 Maps: Mainstream and 'Tamil Jaina' -- References -- Chapter 2: Jaina Studies: A Historical Overview -- 2.1 Jaina 'Entry' into the Tamil Country and Early Jaina Epigraphic Records -- 2.2 Colonial and Oriental 'Discovery' of the Jainas: 'Recovery' of the Self -- Being Jaina, 'Legally' -- 'Recovery' of Self? -- References -- Chapter 3: Community Narratives, Inscriptional Records: A Chronicle of Journeys Through Tamil Jaina Villages -- 3.1 A Prologue -- 3.2 Tamil Jaina Community Narratives: Records of Contemporary History -- 3.3 Stereotypes of Jainas -- 3.4 The Tamil Jaina Agrarian Context -- 3.5 Tamil Jaina Villages and Historical Antiquity: Two Journeys -- 3.6 Kanchipuram, Tiruparuttikunram -- 3.7 Melcittamur (Near Cenji), Villupuram (South Arcot) District : 2002-2003 -- 3.8 Observances, Practice -- 3.9 Memories of Persecution -- 3.10 Understanding of Caste -- 3.11 A Story of the Malainātha Temple -- 3.12 Inscriptional Records -- 3.13 Tirunatharkunru (Singavaram), Cenji -- 3.14 Cittamur/Melcittamur -- 3.15 Melcittamur, Cenji: 2015 (Late February) -- 3.16 Cenji -- 3.17 Vilukkam, Tindivanam, South Arcot (2003), Community Narratives -- 3.18 Desing Rājā Times, the Cittamur Temple, the '72' of Vilukkam and the Brāhmins -- 3.19 Maṭhātipati's Election -- 3.20 Sacred Circulatory Space -- 3.21 Rituals and 'Samskrutam' -- 3.22 A Persecution Story Remembered -- 3.23 Inscriptional History -- 3.24 Revisit: 25 February 2015