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TIME IN INDIA CONCEPTS AND PRAC1'1CES Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA STUDIES IN ORISSAN SOCIEl"Y, CULTURE AND HISTORY Editors: HERMANN KULKE and BURKHARD SCHNEPEL Vol. 1: Jagannath Revisited: Studying Society, Religion and the State in Orissa, edited by Hermann Kulke and Burkhard Schnepel Vol. 2: The Jungle Kings: Ethnohistorical Aspects of Politics and Ritual in Orissa, by Burkhard Schnepel Vol. 3: Text and Context in the History, Literature and Religion of Orissa, edited by Angelika Malinar, Johannes Beltz and Heiko Frese Vol. 4: Altar of Power: The Temple and the State in the Land of Jagannatha, by Yaaminey Mubayi Vol. 5: The Aghria: A Peasant Caste on a Tribal Frontier, by Uwe Skoda Vol. 6: Time in India: Concepts and Practices, edited by Angelika Malinar Vol. 7: Periphery and Centre: Studies in Orissan History, Religion and Anthropology, edited by Georg Pfeffer Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TIME IN INDIA Concepts and Practices Edited by ANGELIKA MALINAR MANOHAR 2007 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AhD e~ ~lb ·014 T0." ~o+ Fint published 2007 C Individual contributors, 2007 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or trammittcd, in any form or by any means, without prior pc111lillion of the editor and the publisher. ISBN 81-7304-713-8 Published by Ajay Kumar Jain for Manobar Publishers & Distributors 4753/23, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi 110 002 Printed at Lordson Publishen Pvt. Ltd Delhi I 10 007 Distributed in South Asia by fOUNDATION eel I S 4381/4, Ansari Road Dlly•pAj, New Delhi 110 002 and its brancba ll Mumbai, Hydcrlbed, Banplore. Cbawi, K<'Iklfa Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Contents •• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Vil • UST OF CONTRIBUl'ORS IX Introduction Angelika Malinar I IRREVERSIBILITY AND REPE'ITl'ION: HISTORICAL CONSTRlJCl'IONS AND RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE I. Time Concepts, Social Identities and Historical Consciousness in Early India Romila Thapar 23 2. The King's Own Time: The AAka System of Orissa Georg &rlcemer 39 3. Interconnecting Parallel Times: Notions of Time in the Caitanya Tradition Angelika Malinar SS 4. Babas and Alekhs: Notes on Concepts of Time and Social Change in a Contemporary Ascetic Doctrine Lidia Guzy 81 RITUAL TIME AND LIFE-CYCLE: COLLECl"IVE REPRESENTATIONS, INDIVIDUAL NEEDS 5. Rhythms of Life: Ritual Time and Historical Time Frederique Apffel-Marglin 99 6. Time for RiluaJ: The Pailjis of Puri and Jajpur Heinrich von Stietencron 123 7. Cosmic Time and its Influence on Rona Girls and Women nna Otten 137 8. Children Sold and Thrown Away: Temporary Identifications in a Converging Tribal and Caste Society UweS/coda 157 9. Memory, Performance and the Regeneration of Society Among the Koya Ulrich Demmer 185 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA . Contents VI COPING WITH MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY: TIME AND THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY 10. Mai,ikdvari and Dokri: Changing Representations of Two Tribal Goddesses and the Dynastic HislOries of Orissa Cornelia Mallebrein 203 11. Casting a Glorious Past: Loss and Retrieval of the 01 Chiki Script Barbara Lotz 235 12. Changing One's Own Identity: The Role of Language in the Transformation of a Subregional Tradition G.N. Dash 265 13. Imagined Chronologies: Perceptions of 'Development' as a Tool in Mapping Oriya Identity Jayanta Sengupta 287 315 INDEX Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Acknowledgements On behalf of the Oris.u Resear,;h Programme I wish to express our thanks to the Government and research institutions of India, scholars and friends in Orissa for supporting our research. In stoic composure, Robert Parkin, University of Oxford, carefully copy-edited the manuscript and made many valuable suggestions. I am grateful to him and to Sebastian Dreyer, Free University of Ber~ for his patience and engagement in formatting the final version of the manuscript. Tim Schwabedissen, University of Kiel, deserves my thanks for creating the electronic version of the index, and Nicole Pohland for her work on an earlier version of the manuscript. Hermann Kulke, University of Kiel, cheea fully supported the finalization of the volume and ensured its safe arrival in India. Many thanks to him and to Ramesh Jain and Siddbarth Chaudhury. Manobar Publishers, for their support and co-operation. Since this volume is the outcome of the annual International Conference of the Oris.u Research Programme in Salzau 2002, I am grateful to Nils Aulilce and JOrg Heinke for helping to organise this Conference. We all owe our thanks to the German Resuri::b Council (DFG) for the generous grant which made the Salzau Conference 2002 possible. ANGELIKA MAUNAR Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Google Orig in al from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA List of Contributors FREoauQUE APFFEL-MARGLIN is Professor of Anthropology at Smith College, Boston (Mass.). GEORG BERKEMER is Research Fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg. G. N. DASH is Professor emeritus of Linguistics at Berhampur University. ULRICH DEMMER is Outside Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology. University of Munich. J. Guzy is Research Fellow at the Institute of Religious Studies, LIDIA Free University Berlin. BARBARA LO'rZ is Lecturer in Hindi at the Institute of Indology. Univer sity of Wilrzburg. ANGELIKA MAUNAR is Lecturer in Hinduism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. CORNELIA MAI ,ERmN is Senior Research Fellow at the Seminar for -I lndology and the Comparative Studies of Religion, University of TUbingen. 'ONA OITEN is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University Berlin. SENGUPTA is Reader in History at Yadavpur University, JAYANTA Kolkata. UWE SKODA is Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University Berlin. HEINRICH VON STIETENCRON is Professor emeritus of Indology and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Tilbingen. is Professor of History at the Jawarhalal Nehru ROMILA THAPAR University, New Delhi. 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