‘Hindu Communism’: Satyabhakta, apocalypses and utopian Ram Rajya

The Indian Economic & Social History Review ◽

10.1177/0019464621997877 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 001946462199787

Author(s):

Charu Gupta

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

First Generation ◽

North India ◽

Faith Based ◽

The North ◽

Way Of Thinking

In the north India of 1920s–30s, many first-generation anticolonial communists and Left intellectuals did not see any contradiction in reliance upon religion, ethical traditions and morality in a search for vocabularies of dignity, equality, just polity and social liberation. Through select writings in Hindi of Satyabhakta (1897–85), an almost forgotten figure in histories of communism in India, this article focuses on the entanglement between religion and communism as a way of thinking about the Left in India, and the problems and possibilities of such imaginings. Steeped in a north Indian Hindi literary print public sphere, such figures illuminated a distinctly Hindu and Indian path towards communism, making it more relatable to a Hindi–Hindu audience. The article draws attention to Satyabhakta’s layered engagements with utopian political desires, which, in envisaging an egalitarian future, wove Hindu faith-based ethical morality, apocalyptic predictions and notions of a romantic Ram Rajya, with decolonisation, anti-capitalism and aesthetic communist visions of equality. Even while precarious and problematic, such imaginations underline hidden plural histories of communism and, at the same time, trouble atheist, secular communists as well as the proponents of Hindutva.

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Literary Conduits for ‘Consent’

The Medieval History Journal ◽

10.1177/0971945816658574 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 322-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pankaj Kumar Jha

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

North India ◽

Indian Society ◽

Historical Process ◽

The North ◽

Literary Cultures

The making of the imperial subjects is as much a matter of historical process as the emergence of the empire. In the case of the Mughal state, this process started much before its actual establishment in the sixteenth century. The fifteenth century in North India was a period of unusual cultural ferment. The emergence of the Mughal imperial formation in the next century was intimately related to the fast congealing tendency of the north Indian society towards greater disciplining of itself. This tendency is evident in the multilingual literary cultures and diverse knowledge formations of the long fifteenth century.

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Ossetian Ritual Feasts and Transpersonal Experience: Re-Description of a Religion as a Religious Practice

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics ◽

10.2478/jef-2021-0018 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 74-88

Author(s):

Sergei Shtyrkov

Keyword(s):

Public Sphere ◽

Religious Practice ◽

Religious Movement ◽

Social Functions ◽

The Public ◽

New Science ◽

The North ◽

Transpersonal Experience ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Religious Systems

Abstract The protest of the North Ossetian nativist religious movement against discourses of dominant institutions in the public sphere involves as its necessary component ‘re-description’ of religion in general and ‘re-constructed’ religious systems in particular. Usually, this means revealing allegedly forgotten ancient meanings of indigenous customs, rituals and folklore texts through the use of various concepts taken from esotericism and/or practical psychology. The language for this re-description is provided by conceptual apparatus developed by New Age movements. Of particular interest in this respect is the language of ‘new science’, ‘alternative history’, ‘transpersonal psychology’, etc., employed as a tool for criticising the established system of Christian-centric understanding of what religion is and what its social functions are.

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All in it Together? Community Food Aid in a Multi-Ethnic Context

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279417000010 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 447-471 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

MADELEINE POWER ◽

BOB DOHERTY ◽

NEIL SMALL ◽

SIMON TEASDALE ◽

KATE E. PICKETT

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Food Distribution ◽

Food Aid ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Religious Groups ◽

Big Society ◽

Faith Based ◽

The North ◽

Demographic Context

AbstractThis paper derives from a study of community food aid in a multi-ethnic, multi-faith city in the North of England. The paper begins to make sense of the diversity of types of food insecurity assistance, examines the potential exclusion of certain groups from receipt of food aid, and explores the relationship between food aid providers and the state. Faith-based food aid is common in the case study area, particularly among food bank provision to the most ‘destitute’ clients. While food aid is adopting service responsibilities previously borne by the state, this does not imply an extension of the ‘shadow state’. Rather, it appears reflective of a pre-welfare state system of food distribution, supported by religious institutions and individual/business philanthropy, but adapted to be consistent with elements of the ‘Big Society’ narrative. Most faith-based providers are Christian. There is little Muslim provision of (or utilisation of) food aid, despite the local demographic context. This raises concerns as to the unintentional exclusion of ethnic and religious groups, which we discuss in the concluding sections.

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Reformism and Orthodox Practice in Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim North India: Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed Reconsidered

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland ◽

10.1017/s1356186311000174 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 177-198

Author(s):

SANA HAROON

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

North India ◽

Ordinary People ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

The North ◽

The Creation

AbstractThis paper is a reconsideration of the career of the north-Indian Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed (1786–1831). I argue that Sayyid Ahmed used a Sufi devotional premise to understand and explain principles of orthodoxy. He also applied a concept of innate spiritual knowledge to reformed practice, suggesting that ordinary people, without scholarly training, could determine and apply the principles of orthodox practice of Islam for themselves and for others. His movement modified traditional seminary-centred teaching and leadership through the creation of a popular and easily transferrable system of practice rooted in the community and imprinted with the obligation to spread reformist teachings.

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Abstract 16327: Clinical Profiles, Care Patterns, Outcomes and Sex Differences of Patients With STEMI in India: Insights From the North Indian ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NORIN STEMI) Registry

Circulation ◽

10.1161/circ.142.suppl_3.16327 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽

Author(s):

Arman Qamar ◽

Sameer Arora ◽

Puneet Gupta ◽

Michael Hendrickson ◽

Muthiah Vaduganathan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Reperfusion Therapy ◽

North India ◽

Femoral Access ◽

St Segment Elevation ◽

The North ◽

Lv Dysfunction ◽

St Segment ◽

Care Patterns ◽

Almost All

Background: Although major strides have been made in the care of patients (pts) with STEMI in high-income countries, little is known about the characteristics, practice patterns, outcomes & sex differences of pts with STEMI in India. Methods: The NORIN STEMI registry is an ongoing investigator-initiated prospective cohort study of pts presenting with STEMI at tertiary medical centers in North India. This registry started enrolling pts in January 2019. Results: Of 3,635 participants enrolled to date, 16% were women & the median age was 55 (IQR 45-62) years with 33% aged <50 years. Prior to STEMI, 63% were smokers, 29% had hypertension, 24% diabetes, & 54% were obese or overweight (Figure). Overall, 11% were previously treated with aspirin or statins. Only 2% of these patients had health insurance, & 65% had lower socioeconomic status. Most (93%) initially presented to a non-PCI capable facility. Almost all received aspirin, statin, P2Y12i & heparin on presentation; 66% were treated with PCI (98% femoral access), 15% fibrinolysis alone, 3% both fibrinolysis & PCI, &21% were medically managed; symptom onset to balloon time was 2.9 (0.6-9) days. LVEF was <40% in 46% & mechanical complications occurred in 1.3% (n=35 VSD, n=12 severe MR). 30-day mortality was 9%. Women were less likely to receive PCI (58% vs 67%) & had a 2-fold higher mortality vs men (OR adj 2.1; 1.6-3.0; Figure). Conclusion: In this contemporary registry of pts with STEMI in North India, over a third were younger than 50 years & tobacco smoking was a dominant risk factor. There were significant delays in timely reperfusion therapy with resultant severe LV dysfunction present in over half & high mortality particularly in women. It is critical to identify barriers, increase awareness, and develop strategies to improve STEMI care in India.

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Association of the pre-monsoon thermal field over north India and the western Tibetan Plateau with summer monsoon rainfall over India

Annales Geophysicae ◽

10.5194/angeo-33-1051-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 33 (8) ◽

pp. 1051-1058 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. D. Bansod ◽

S. Fadnavis ◽

S. P. Ghanekar

Keyword(s):

Tibetan Plateau ◽

Summer Monsoon ◽

Asian Summer Monsoon ◽

Summer Monsoon Rainfall ◽

North India ◽

Monsoon Region ◽

The North ◽

Western Tibetan Plateau ◽

Asian Summer ◽

Summer Monsoon Region

Abstract. In this paper, interannual variability of tropospheric air temperatures over the Asian summer monsoon region during the pre-monsoon months is examined in relation to Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR; June to September total rainfall). For this purpose, monthly grid-point temperatures in the entire troposphere over the Asian summer monsoon region and ISMR data for the period 1949–2012 have been used. Spatial correlation patterns are investigated between the temperature field in the lower tropospheric levels during May over the Asian summer monsoon region and ISMR. The results indicate a strong and significant northwest–southeast dipole structure in the spatial correlations over the Indian region, with highly significant positive (negative) correlations over the regions of north India and the western Tibetan Plateau region – region R1 (north Bay of Bengal: region R2). The observed dipole is seen significantly up to a level of 850 hPa and eventually disappears at 700 hPa. Thermal indices evaluated at 850 hPa level, based on average air temperatures over the north India and western Tibetan Plateau region (TI1) and the north Bay of Bengal region (TI2) during May, show a strong, significant relationship with the ISMR. The results are found to be consistent and robust, especially in the case of TI1 during the period of analysis. A physical mechanism for the relationship between these indices and ISMR is proposed. Finally the composite annual cycle of tropospheric air temperature over R1 during flood/drought years of ISMR is examined. The study brings out the importance of the TI1 in the prediction of flood/drought conditions over the Indian subcontinent.

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THE DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF A PORTION OF THE NORTH PERTH BASIN—A SINGLE WELL DIPMETER ANALYSIS

The APPEA Journal ◽

10.1071/aj70016 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 90

Author(s):

K. J. Bird ◽

W. F. Coleman ◽

H. Crocker

Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

Source Area ◽

Lower Triassic ◽

Flood Plain ◽

Upper Jurassic ◽

Lower Jurassic ◽

Depositional History ◽

The North ◽

Single Well ◽

History Of

Four-arm dipmeter interpretation has been integrated with other wireline logs, lithologic and palaeontologic data, and regional geology to arrive at a history of the deposition in a portion of the North Perth Basin.The Permian sediments were deposited in a moderate to low energy, paralic to marine environment. They were unconformably overlain by a thin transgressive Lower Triassic sand and deepwater marine shale. The Middle Triassic sediments were deposited as a regressive marine sequence under the influence of a strong southwesterly uplift, and culminated in piedmont talus deposits of Upper Triassic age.In the Lower Jurassic this area evolved through a flood-plain environment to a paralic environment with a northeast-southwest oriented coastline and a northern source area. During the Middle Jurassic gentle crustal movements, coupled with an increasingly active northern and eastern source area, resulted in several cycles of nearshore deposition, and finally a marine transgression.Subsequent violent tectonic uplift to the east in the Upper Jurassic produced massive first generation sands which were deposited in a mainly continental environment.

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