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Article: Corporeality, Aryanism, Race: The Theatre and Social Reform of the Parsis of Western India
Title | Corporeality, Aryanism, Race: The Theatre and Social Reform of the Parsis of Western India |
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Keywords | reform Aryan race Bombay theatre Parsi corporeality militarism |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Citation | South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 2015, v. 38, n. 4, p. 613-638 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2015 Reproduced with the kind permission of the management of the. Recent scholarship has problematised the impact-response theory that ideas such as Aryanism, eugenics and militarism were merely imported from a European context into a South Asian one. This paper delineates a longer trajectory of the relationship between corporeal language and communal identity through a focus on the Parsi community of western India. As early as 1853, reformist Parsis enacted modes of ancient Kaya¯ni¯ virility in the gymnasium and theatre to redefine notions of communal identity that drew simultaneously from Enlightenment precepts and a mythic Aryan heritage discovered by Orientalists. Subsequently, the confluence of a loss of numerical, financial and political strength, and the popularisation of the ideas of Darwin and Mendel, prompted a shift in ethnic and semantic thinking, whereby the language of corporeality was co-opted by the orthodox faction to justify the bifurcation of religion and race. Consequently, Parsis, in the midst of a rising Hindu nationalist movement, called not only for the revival of Persian epic theatre, a Parsi militia, the exclusion of half-castes from the community and the castration of mentally defective community members, but also for a renewal of ties to Iran and a separate state of Parsistan. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/262686 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.252 |
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dc.contributor.author | Nicholson, Rashna Darius | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-08T02:46:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-08T02:46:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 2015, v. 38, n. 4, p. 613-638 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0085-6401 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/262686 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2015 Reproduced with the kind permission of the management of the. Recent scholarship has problematised the impact-response theory that ideas such as Aryanism, eugenics and militarism were merely imported from a European context into a South Asian one. This paper delineates a longer trajectory of the relationship between corporeal language and communal identity through a focus on the Parsi community of western India. As early as 1853, reformist Parsis enacted modes of ancient Kaya¯ni¯ virility in the gymnasium and theatre to redefine notions of communal identity that drew simultaneously from Enlightenment precepts and a mythic Aryan heritage discovered by Orientalists. Subsequently, the confluence of a loss of numerical, financial and political strength, and the popularisation of the ideas of Darwin and Mendel, prompted a shift in ethnic and semantic thinking, whereby the language of corporeality was co-opted by the orthodox faction to justify the bifurcation of religion and race. Consequently, Parsis, in the midst of a rising Hindu nationalist movement, called not only for the revival of Persian epic theatre, a Parsi militia, the exclusion of half-castes from the community and the castration of mentally defective community members, but also for a renewal of ties to Iran and a separate state of Parsistan. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies | - |
dc.subject | reform | - |
dc.subject | Aryan | - |
dc.subject | race | - |
dc.subject | Bombay | - |
dc.subject | theatre | - |
dc.subject | Parsi | - |
dc.subject | corporeality | - |
dc.subject | militarism | - |
dc.title | Corporeality, Aryanism, Race: The Theatre and Social Reform of the Parsis of Western India | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00856401.2015.1080211 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84954491017 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 38 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 613 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 638 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1479-0270 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000367921700006 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0085-6401 | - |