Bonding with the Lord

Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation

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• Publisher: Bloomsbury India
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9789388414531
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Hinduism

Few other Hindu gods guide a regional consciousness, pervade walks of everyday life and define a collective psyche the way Lord Jagannath does in Odisha and its contiguous areas. Jagannath is metonymic of Odisha and the Odia way of life, arguably much more than any other god for a particular geography or its peoples. While not derecognising the historical and the spiritual aspects of Jagannath, Bonding with the Lord attempts to look at the deployment of Jagannath in contemporary cultural practices involving the sensorium in the widest sense. The project of a cultural Jagannath not only materialises him in people's everyday practices but also democratises scholarship on him. The expansion of the scope of research on Jagannath to cultural expressions in a more encompassing way rather than confining to 'elitist' religious/literary sources makes him an everyday presence and significantly enhances his sphere of influence. Jagannath's 'tribal' origin, his association with Buddhism and Jainism and his avatari status make him an all-encompassing, multilayered symbol and a treasure trove for multiple interpretations.

INDEX

Note: The letter ‘n’ ‘f’ following locators refers to notes and figures respectively.

A

Abakasha, 28

Acharya, Pritish, 165

Acharya, Pyarimohan, 33

Acharya, Sudarsana, 36

Adhunik Odia songs, 40

Adhunik–prachin literary controversy, 44

Aesthetic sensibility, 31, 71

Agrawalla, Namita, 43

Agrawalla, Satyanarayan, 41

Agrawalla, Sitaram, 43–44

Agrifoglio, R., 228–29, 235

Alam, Sikandar, 40, 56

All-black colour images, 18f, 19

Amitrakshar, 29–30

Ananda bazaar, 95, 107, 132

Anderson, B., 244

Anti-Hindi sentiments, 197

Appadurai, Arjun, 93, 199

Artatrana, 26

Atibadi, 37, 62, 87

Aural effect, 30, 33

Avram, W., 85

Ayurveda, 103. See also Ramdev

B

Badasinghara besa, 12f, 14

Baidehisha Bilasa, 36

Baishnav, Srila B.K., 223n4

Bake, A., 71

Bal Jagruti Association, 192

Balabhadra, 4–5, 11–12, 21, 54–55, 57–58, 122, 124, 126–27, 161, 163, 168, 227

Baladev Ratha, 26, 31

Bali, Sharadha, 25, 42

Bandhu Mohanty, 37, 53, 56–63, 82

Banerjee, Biswajit, 182

Banerjee-Dube, Ishita, 233

Banikantha, 35–38, 59

Barik, Shantilata, 43

Baviskar, Amita, 181, 196

Behera, D.K., 235

Behl, Aditya, 209

Being Odia (t-shirts), 21

‘Belly politics’, 176

Belongingness, 69

Beltz, J., 246, 250

Berger, John, 212

Berger, P., 212, 238, 242

Berkemer, G., 247

Bhaduri, N.P., 213...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Foreword by Hermann Kulke
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Everyday Bonding with Lord Jagannath in and beyond Odisha by Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Uwe Skoda
• Section I: Mediating Jagannath
• Section II: Practising Jagannath
• Section III: Re-placing Jagannath
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index