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357 absolutism: absolute divinity, 86–90, 270, 280, 282; dual morality and, 90, 131, 265, 273 acanti (funeral bier), 117, 131–32, 161, 162, 248, 303n32 Ācāri: carpenters, 101, 108, 112, 140, 249–50; priest, 247–48 accommodation, cultural, 91, 98; Brahmanic, 4–16, 98, 149, 198, 208, 221, 267–68, 271, 292n19; and “fabrication mechanism” of caste, 98, 128, 271. See also inculturation; relativization; substitution accountant (karṇam, kaṇakkupiḷḷai), Veḷḷāḷar, 100, 104, 111, 154–56, 170, 301n11, 308n33 affirmative action, 247, 276, 279 agriculture: Alapuram, 101, 109, 110, 111, 249–50, 252–53; “bound-mode” relationships, 129, 249; economic stagnation, 252–53; famine, 54, 309n1; Jesuit overseers, 42; migrant cultivators, 41, 169; Paḷḷar land, 172, 173; produce allocation, 40, 109; production hierarchy, 109; rituals, 21; sharecropping tenancy, 172, 173, 177, 181, 312n35; Uṭaiyār cultivators, 41, 101, 106, 110, 111, 301n12 AICUF (All India Catholic Universities Federation), 209, 321n22 Aiyanar, 80, 81, 82, 87–88, 106, 155 aiyā vīṭu (lord’s house), 113, 181, 248–49, 302–3n31 Alapuram, ix, xiii–xiv, 62, 99–132; agriculture, 101, 109, 110, 111, 249–50, 252–53; All Souls festival, 77fig, 121, 247; businesses, 101, 243, 251, 252, 320n15; caste composition, xiii–xiv, 28–29, 100–112, 102table; “community of co-sharers,” 107, 139; contemporary, 233–65; dalit priests, 238–39, 316n36; dalit protest, 169–78, 183, 186, 187, 192–93, 255–60, 283, 322n26; economics, 40, 101, 109–12, 243, 248–59, 262, 320nn15,20; Hindu nationalism , 204, 233, 235–37; history, 99–101; houses, 104–6, 104fig, 244, 245; missionary teaching, 66; Paḷḷar population, 172; Pentecostalism, xiv, 92–94, 192–93, 233–42, 319nn4,5; popular Catholicism, 94–95; population, 101, 102table; Santiyakappar church, 14, 39–40, 72fig, 73, 82, 99–100, 110, 140, 141table, 146–49; Santiyakappar festival, 29, 39–40, 65, 86, 107–8, 109, 111, 133–67, 269; streets, xiii–xiv, 101–6, 103map, 105fig, 114–15, 240, 244; village gods and goddesses, 79, 84, 85, 106–7, 270, 311n23; water supply, 106. See also caste politics; village society All India Anna DMK (AIADMK) government (2001–6), 203, 204 All India Catholic Bishops’ Conference (1981), 161–62 All India Catholic Universities Federation (AICUF), 209, 321n22 Index 358 Index All India Devēntira Kula Vēḷāḷar Progress Association, 256fig All Souls festival, 77fig, 121–2, 247 Ambedkar, Bhimrao R., 208, 225, 227, 275, 310n14; anti-Brahmanism, 190, 193, 220, 221; birth centenary (1990), 195, 224; Buddhist conversion , 190, 194; caste as a “disease of mind,” 246; caste politics of conversion, 97; counterculture , 190, 194; dalit entry to temples, 171; death anniversary (6 December 2002), 205; Dr. Ambedkar Centenary Movement, 209, 223; Dr. Ambedkar Cultural Academy (DACA), 226; Paḷḷar celebration of, 160, 176, 223; political Buddhism, 313n44; political minority idea, 174, 190; “quit Hinduism,” 205; statues, 278 ambivalent powers: blood, 78–79, 80–81; goddess , 84, 85; male Catholic saints, 79–82, 95; Paḷḷar saints, 165. See also danger; “fierce gods” ampalam. See headmen analogical imagination, 11, 24, 288n25 Anglican SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts), 101, 179–80, 187 animal sacrifice, 63, 73, 81, 82, 235, 294n7 Anthony (the Hermit), St., 122, 138, 239, 306n6; festival, 320n10; shrine, 68, 70, 80, 87, 88, 294n20; St. Anthony Poṅkal festival 306n6 anthropology, ix, xiii, 9; of Christianity, xii– xiii, 2, 3–4, 24–29, 288n24; Christianity of, xii–xiii; dalit theology and, 220; feminist, 99; historical, xiii, 27; Indian villages, 99; of Tamil Catholicism, 24–29; universalism, xii. See also Dumont, Louis; ethnography anti-Brahmanism: caste politics, 159, 175, 190– 97, 220, 221, 275–76; dalit identity and, 193; Dravidian, 23, 175; golden-age theories, 51–2 175; Protestant, 23, 175, 288n21 anti-Christian campaign, Hindu nationalist, xiv–xv, 29, 167, 199–206, 233, 234–37, 276, 314n5, 315nn10,15,16 anticonversion law, 202–6 Antony, St., Puliyampatti shrine, 68, 86 Appadurai, Arjun, 40–41, 43, 139, 184 Appavoo, James Theophilius (“Parattai”), 222 Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas/Thomism Aranha, Paolo, 286n5, 290n43, 292nn19,20 arts: dalit, 22, 222–23, 227, 230, 250, 278. See also dramas; drumming; literature Arulanandar. See de Britto, João (John)/ Arulanandar Arulnathan, Selvaraj, xv Arun, C. Joe, 224 Arunthathiyars. See Cakkiliyar/Arunthathiyars Aryans, 52, 175, 190, 221, 288n21 Arya Samaj, 58, 192, 314n2 Asad, Talal, xiii, 20, 289n39, 290n41 asceticism: female, 79, 84–85, 296nn37,38,40; kāṭu, 87, 299n59; paṇṭāracāmis, 34; Pentecostal , 94, 241; pilgrim...
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