Fabrics of Indianness

<div>List of Figures</div><div><br></div><div>Acknowledgements</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 1: Guyanese Hinduism and the Study of Clothing: An Introduction</div><div><br></div><div>Socio-historical Context and Religious Groups in Guyana</div><div><br></div><div>Guyanese Hindu Traditions</div><div><br></div><div>Guyanese Transnationalism and the Concept of Translocality</div><div><br></div><div>Methodology</div><div><br></div><div>The Study of Clothing and Dress</div><div><br></div><div>Clothing, Closeness, and Migration</div><div><br></div><div>Outline of the Book</div><div><br></div><div>Resemblance, Imitation, and Consumption</div><div><br></div><div>Intimacy, Touch, and Exchange</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 2: Negotiating ‘Indianness’ Through Indian Wear</div><div><br></div><div>Defining ‘Indian Wear’</div><div><br></div><div>The Ambiguous ‘Long Skirt’</div><br><div>Dressing Up for Puja</div><div><br></div><div>Indian Wear and Ethnic Identity</div><div><br></div><div>Indian Ethnic Identity and the African ‘Other’</div><div><br></div><div>Indian Revitalization</div><div><br></div><div>Nuh-propriate Clothes and the Influence of Bollywood Movies</div><div><br></div><div>Contested Indianness</div><div><br></div><div>The ‘Indian Indian’ as Indian ‘Other’</div><div><br></div><div>Indo-Caribbeanness</div><div><br></div><div>Mastering the Sari: Dress and the Performance of Indianness</div><div><br></div><div>Degrees of Indianness?</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 3: Stitching Readymade Dhotis: The Social History of Indian Wear in Guyana</div><div><br></div><div>‘Overseas Clothing’</div><div><br></div><div>Selfmade Clothes and Indian Wear</div><div><br></div><div>Branding ‘Foreign’ Status</div><div><br></div><div>Stitching Authority?</div><div><br></div><div>‘Superior’ Dress, Conversion, and Social Upward Mobility</div><div><br></div><div>Dressing Respectably: Dress Codes and Draped Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>Adapting English Wear: White Dresses and Orhni<br></div><div>Hindu Male ‘Effeminacy’ and Indian Wear</div><div><br></div><div>Stitching Dhotis</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 4: Uniform(ity) Through Color: The Invention of Madrassi Vestment</div><div><br></div><div>The ‘Invention’ of the Madras Tradition</div><div><br></div><div>Processes of Standardization</div><div><br></div><div>Creating Madras ‘Authenticity’</div><div><br></div><div>Creating the Garment</div><div><br></div><div>The ‘Invention’ of Vestment</div><div><br></div><div>Uniform(ity)</div><div><br></div><div>Contested Discipline</div><div><br></div><div>Unifying Color</div><div><br></div><div>The Stigma of Being Madrassi</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 5: (Ex)Changing the Deity’s Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>“Cyan leff a God naked”: Dressing the Deity</div><div><br></div><div>Matching Murti Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>The Practice of Charhaway</div><div><br></div><div>“Give from your brows, your sweat”</div><div><br></div><div>The Joint Family as Contributor</div><div><br></div><div>Sending Ritual Contributions</div><div><br></div><div>Photographs as Substitutes</div><div><br></div><div>Sharing Mudda’s Saris</div><div><br></div><div>Barrel-sending in a Madrassi Community</div><div><br></div><div>Wearing Mudda’s Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 6: Staying in Touch, Dwelling in Clothes: Barrels, Gift-Giving, and Migration</div><div><br></div><div>To ‘Send Back’ Gifts</div><div><br></div><div>Barrel-sending and the Exchange of Clothing</div><div><br></div><div>The Barrel as Joint Effort</div><div><br></div><div>Giving Used Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>Clothing as Dwelling Structure</div><div><br></div><div>Bodies and Clothing in Exchange</div><div><br></div><div>Contact and Touch</div><div><br></div><div>‘Physical’ and ‘Spiritual’ Bodies</div><div><br></div><div>Throwing Spirits Pon Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>Energies and Substances</div><div><br></div><div>Used Clothing as Memory and Presence</div><div><br&gt;Touched Clothes and Thrifty Barrels</div><div><br></div><div>Giving as Consumption</div><div><br></div><div>Touched Clothing</div><div><br></div><div>‘Nation’ and Caste Identities</div><div><br></div><div>New and Used, Clean and Polluted</div><div><br></div><div>Wearing Prasadam</div><div><br></div><div>Cleaning Bodies, Washing Clothes</div><div><br></div><div>Barrels and Thrift</div><div><br></div><div>Gifts of Used Clothing as Disposal?</div><div><br></div><div>Sending Thrifty Barrels</div><div><br></div><div>In Guyana, “Things Finish So Fast”</div><div><br></div><div>Thrift and Indian Identity</div><div><br></div><div>‘Recycling’ Used Clothes: Thrifty and Wasteful Disposal</div><div><br></div><div>Chapter 8: Conclusion</div></div>