Aya Ikegame

Aya Ikegame works as a Research Associate on the Oecumene research project. She completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Her recent publications include: <i>Pri

Mathas, gurus and citizenship in colonial India

Strong religious, communal and kinship ties in non-European societies were treated as evidence of their inability to produce modern citizenship. How then, did religious institutions called mathas in South India in the early twentieth century successfully express their political will through acts o

By Aya Ikegame

/ 8 Nov 2012