Table of Contents

Introduction; Literature & the Development of Regional Consciousness in Medieval Kerala; A Philological Approach to Regional Ideologies; Writing Regional Consciousness: Maratha History & Regional Identity in Modern Maharashtra; Self-Definitions & Otherness: Contexts & Sources of Early Imaginings in Late-Nineteenth-Century Orissa; Home away from Home? The Spatial Politics of Modern Tamil Identity; The Place of Mumbai: Circles of Urban Identity in the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries; Religious Geography & the Multiplicity of Regions in Maharashtra; Celebrating Allegiances, Ambiguated Belonging: Regionality in Festival & Performance in Sringeri, South India; Celebrating a Region through Historical Commemoration; Inhabiting Times & Producing Spaces; Caste Politics through the Prism of Region; Regions & Communities: Social Identities in Contemporary Punjab; The Hindi Heartland: A Region Sacred to Hindus & Muslims; Regional Politics, City Conflicts & Communal Riots: Ahmedabad 1985-1986.

About the Author

Rajendra Vora is Lokmanya Tilak Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune. He is co-editor of Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices (2004) and Home, Family, and Kinship in Maharashtra (1999), and editor of Socio-Economic Profile of Rural India, Vol. 3 (2005). He has written three books in Marathi and numerous articles on the political process and political thought in India. Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She has published more than ten books and twenty articles on the religious history and geography of Maharashtra, including Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra (1995) and Connected Places: Region, Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India (2003).