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This is an annotated translation of an award-winning 1895 Marathi novel entitled The Subhedar's Son by the Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. The novel provides a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed. The novel's historical context allows modern researchers to appreciate the particularity of regional and vernacular Indian Christianity.
List of contents
- Introducing the Novel
- I. The Context of The Subhedar's Son
- II. Multiple Narratives in the Novel
- III. Shankar Nana, Parubai and the Author, Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar
- The Subhedar's Son (Subhedaracha Putra): An Annotated Translation
- Preface
- Announcement
- Table of Contents
- Preparing for Battle
- A Stranger among Friends and Relatives
- Enlightened Times
- Two Sons in Twelve Hundred Rupees
- A Favour is Never Wasted
- A Barrage of Losses
- Life's First Disappointment
- "I have no doubt that truth will be revealed!"
- Family Pride
- The Fiery Tongue is an Abode of Injustice
- The Sadasatsodhak Mandali
- Lurching in a Sea of Suspicion
- Reaching Harbour
- Ramaa
- Scenes from Life
- Afterword and Concluding Thoughts
- Selected References
About the author
Deepra Dandekar completed her training in history, anthropology and archaeology at Delhi University (St. Stephen's College) and Deccan College, Pune. Subsequently, she trained as an internee at various Non-Governmental Organizations in Pune on research projects concerning gender, religion and health. She has researched and published on women's health rituals, and the religious expression of political minorities in Maharashtra at the South Asia Institute and the Cluster for Excellence, University of Heidelberg. She is currently working on the research project on migration and exclusion at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin.
Summary
This is an annotated translation of an award-winning 1895 Marathi novel entitled The Subhedar's Son by the Rev. Dinkar Shankar Sawarkar. The novel provides a blueprint of what a Brahminical journey towards Christian conversion encompassed. The novel's historical context allows modern researchers to appreciate the particularity of regional and vernacular Indian Christianity.
Additional text
In this book, the author draws her observations about Brahmin conversion from a larger literary corpus whose contours she mediates to the reader. In the process, we gain access to valuable perspectives on a community of converts that is often overlooked in the study of Indian Christianity. The book's provocative questions make an important intervention in studies of religious conversion in India.
