Abstract
AbstractThis chapter examines how dharma shifts when families move into new neighborhoods. It focuses on the experiences of one woman, Shubha, whose family moved out of Pulan into a more elite middle-class neighborhood and her difficulty to embody a new dharmic identity even as the decisions she makes regarding how to raise her daughters with different bodily practices will enable them to do so. It revisits themes of education, marriage, and work, but emphasizes nonritual aspects of middle-class dharma, such as fashion, food, leisure, and hospitality, and the role of the body in reflecting and producing classed dharmic identities.
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Oxford University PressNew York
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