caa a22 4500 38639007X CHVBK 20180307112111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00001050 doi S0026749X00001050 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00001050 Good Anthony University of Edinburgh Law, Legitimacy, and the Hereditary Rights of Tamil Temple Priests [Elektronische Daten] [Anthony Good] This paper examines the arguments whereby the Brahman priests of a Hindu temple in the town of Kalugumalai, South India, claim exclusive rights to perform worship in that shrine. For comparison, it also deals briefly with the priests of a much larger temple in the nearby city of Madurai, whose arguments partly contradict those used in Kalugumalai. This discrepancy will be explained by treating both sets of arguments as strategic statements, which legitimize the self-interests of their respective protagonists. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-05), 233-257 0026-749X 23:2<233 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00001050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00001050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Good Anthony University of Edinburgh NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/2(1989-05), 233-257 0026-749X 23:2<233 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge