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King of Hunters, Warriors, and Shepherds

Essays on Khandoba

Av Günther-Dietz Sontheimer, Anne Feldhaus, Aditya Malik, Heidrun Brückner

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When Günther-Dietz Sontheimer died in 1992, he left unfulfilled his wish to write a history of the Maharashtrian deity Khandoba. The volume brings together Sontheimer’s English-language articles on Khandoba and the equivalent gods Mallanna in Andhra Pradesh and Mailara in Karnataka. Taken together, the essays in this volume show how Sontheimer’s thoughts about Khandoba developed, and illustrate the great breadth of his understanding of the cult. The articles take into account the differing traditions of the wide variety of castes and tribes for whose members Khandoba (or Mallanna or Mailara) is an important god, and make use of the various kinds of source materials that Sontheimer gathered – ovis, oral epics, of the Dhangar shepherds; narratives, comments and statements made by people belonging to various groups
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Günther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-92) taught History of Religions and Philosophy of South Asia, traditional Hindu Law (Dharamasastra), as well as Marathi language and literature at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg. From 1966 onwards he conducted field research on Indian folk culture, especially on the oral traditions, religion and customs of pastoral communities in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Anne Feldhaus is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies, at Arizona State University. She specializes in anthropological, philological, and religious studies in Maharashtra. Aditya Malik is Founding Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Plaksha University. His research and publications focus on oral traditions and ritual performance; religion, social justice and law; historiography; as well as the intersections of humanities, social sciences and technology. Heidrun Brückner is Professor of Indology in the Department of Indology and Comparative Religion at the University of Tübingen.

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