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100			_aNair, Janaki. _921629
245			_aModernity and ‘publicness’: The career of the Mysore matha, 1880–1940
260			_aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review
300			_a57(1), Jan-Mar, 2020: p.5-30
520			_aFin de siècle Mysore witnessed the gathering force of interminable rivalries of prestige between mathas (monastic institutions). Contests over the types and number of honours enjoyed by travelling gurus in Mysore became frequent, reaching a crescendo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By this time, the contests were also being adjudicated in courts, as the Mysore administration began to exert greater bureaucratic control over these institutions. The widening sphere of engagements of the modernising matha reveals that a new notion of publicness was taking shape, co-constituted by a triangulation of forces: on one side was the rapidly bureaucratising Mysore state which brought a different visibility and public accountability to the matha; a second side comprised the matha itself developing a new, socially purposive public life. Finally, the matha’s redefinition was aided and shaped by the adherents of the matha, emerging as a ‘public’ which both drew on and remained at a remove from its caste identity. This period of reform had enduring consequences, as the Mysore matha took on a supplementary state form after Indian Independence in 1947. - Reproduced
650			_aCaste, Public, Honours disputes, Bureaucratisation, Mathas (monastic institutions), Mysore _919559
773			_aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review
906			_aHISTORY - INDIA - MYSORE
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