Book
The Kashmiri Pandits: a study of cultural choice in North India
Oxford University Press • Delhi • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Sender, Henriette M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on interviews and archival research, this is a thorough history of the leadership roles in modern Indian society occupied by the Kashmiri Pandit community. As literate, Persian-speaking Hindis who constituted a hybrid culture, Pandits were well-positioned to be administrators in the Moghul Empire, a status and role they kept under the British, to whom they remained loyal to during the 1857 Mutiny and by whom they were highly rewarded for it. The author follows the family histories of notables living in major urban centers throughout northern India and Pakistan, and chronicles their later efforts to bridge the growing political divide between Hindi and Muslims—an impossible task that led to them being distrusted by sectarian movements.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Cultural goals
- Cultural identity and pride
- Speech
- Press
- Sodalities
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Government institutions
- Political movements
- Religious denominations
- Religious intolerance and martyrs
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kashmiri
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2023
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2022
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1220-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern India; Punjab, Pakistan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henny Sender
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981) under the title: The Kashmiri Brahmins (Pandits) up to 1930.
- While this is largely a history, the analyst only marked the earlier chapters as history (OCM 175).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-316) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88900012
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kashmiri Pandits--History
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--Social life and customs
- India--Social life and customs