This article seeks to pluralize current scholarly perceptions of what constitutes Advaita Vedānta in colonial India. It suggests, in particular, that the tendency to concentrate on the so-called “neo-Vedānta” of a handful of cosmopolitan reformers has obscured other kinds of innovative Vedānta-inspired discourses that have significantly shaped the formation of modern Hindu consciousness. These discourses are indebted, in ways that are only beginning to be understood, to religious traditions rooted in particular regions and vernacular languages. The article illustrates this argument with reference to the Kōvilūr Ātīṉam, a Vedānta-affiliated monastic institution in Tamil-speaking South India founded by Mutturāmaliṅka Ñāṉatēcika Cuvāmikaḷ (1791–1847). Examining the significance of this figure’s life story for the wealthy Nāṭṭukkōṭṭai Ceṭṭiyār merchant community that comprises the Ātīṉam’s social base, the article explores how social aspirations, traditions of monastic authority, and vernacular Vedāntic literature contribute toward a colonial project of caste self-fashioning that I refer to as “Ceṭṭiyār Vedānta”.

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Ceṭṭiyār Vedānta：在南印度殖民地塑造印度教自我

本文旨在使当前学术界对印度殖民时期的 Advaita Vedānta 构成的看法多元化。它特别表明，少数世界性改革者专注于所谓的“新吠檀多”的趋势掩盖了其他类型的受吠檀多启发的创新话语，这些话语显着塑造了现代印度教意识的形成。这些话语以刚刚开始被理解的方式归功于植根于特定地区和方言的宗教传统。这篇文章参考了 Kōvilūr Ātīṉam 来说明这一论点，Kōvilūr Ātīṉam 是一个在讲泰米尔语的南印度由 Mutturāmaliṅka Ñāṉatēcika Cuvāmikaḷ（1791-1847 年）创立的吠檀多附属修道院。