The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India

Abraham, Janaki

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64289-5_6

The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography 2017

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64289-5_6

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The Lives of Others: The Production and Influence of Neighbourhood Cultures in Urban India

Janaki Abraham

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This book is an ethnographic study of the relationship between religion and class among upwardly mobile Hindus in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. It focuses on women in Pulan, an emerging middle-class neighborhood of Udaipur, and argues that becoming middle class is not only a socioeconomic process, but a religious one. As upwardly mobile Hindu women experiment with middle-class consumer and lifestyle practices, they must negotiate rapidly shifting boundaries of what is possible and appropriate for themselves. In so doing, as this book shows, they are negotiating what is appropriate dharma, the moral grounding of Hindu worlds. It also demonstrates how generating and inhabiting new dharmic, religious selfhoods in the middle classes is a process of aspiration whereby women align emerging middle-class desires with more traditional religious obligations, a process that can be as joyful as it is difficult and disorienting. Analyzing class through the lens of dharma and recognizing class as religious allows us to see how Hindu traditions continue to be reimagined and reshaped in contemporary India through the everyday practices of women. In developing dharma as an analytical concept to recognize what counts as “religion,” this book also pushes for expanding definitions of religion in the social sciences and the humanities both within and beyond the context of Hinduism in South Asia.

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