Anthropos: Anthropos, 78.1983,5/6

Anthropos, 78.1983,5/6

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Titel:: Anthropos

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Titel:: Anthropos, 78.1983,5/6

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1983

Signatur:: LA 1118

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

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Titel:: Bd. 78, 1983, Heft 5-6

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Titel:: Some Remarks on the Bengali Deity Dharma: Its Cult and Study

Sonstige Person:: Das, Rahul Peter

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften und Zeitungen > Zeitschriften zur Ethnologie

Rahul Peter Das Some Remarks on the Bengali Deity Dharma: Its Cult and Study Abstract. — The cult of a deity called Dharma is fairly widespread among Hindus in the West of Bengal, which even today has a large population of true tribals. The study of this deity and its cult as they are today, of their historical development and origins, their literature and possible parallels in other regions and among other peoples, is of great inter est to scholars concerned with India, anthropology and/or religion. Most research has so far been published only in Bengali. This essay, ostensibly the review of an important Ben gali work on the subject, attempts also to introduce the Western reader to the deity and its cult, as well as to give an idea of previous research done on the subject. It also at tempts to critically evaluate the methods and methodology of such research, and to point out other ways of tackling problems connected with it. [India, West Bengal, Religion, Dharma] Introduction The study of so-called ‘popular’ or ‘folk’ Hinduism may, if conducted properly, throw light on many of the ‘non-Aryan’ characteristics of this form of Hinduism (if I be allowed the use of this term in this context) and of the processes which led to their re-interpretation or re-evaluation, as also on their origins. Especially Bengal, with a centuries-old New Indo-Aryan litera ture on deities assumed to be originally ‘non-Aryan’, has for a long time fascinated scholars, all the more so since Eastern India was, even as late as Rahul Peter Das, studied Indology, Islamistics, and Tamilistics in Cologne, Bonn, Hamburg, and Kiel; 1982 M.A. degree in Indology (thesis: papa und pâpman im Éata- pathabràhmana) from Hamburg University, where he teaches Bengali. He is preparing a line-index of Sanskrit medical (Ayurvedic) literature for the German Research Associa tion (DFG) and researching on Vrksàyurveda (Upavanavinoda). He is the author of various articles and reviews in English, German, and Bengali and has also edited Walter Neisser’s Kleine Schriften (Wiesbaden 1980, Glasenapp-Stiftung 21). Address: Berliner Str. 26, 2085 Quickborn, W. Germany.

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