Ramesh Bairy

Being Brahmin, Being Modern

Exploring the Lives of Caste Today

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of caste in contemporary India centred around a sociological reading of Brahmins in Karnataka. Pushing beyond older binaries like legitimation-contestation and dominance-resistance it suggests new registers of inquiry to understand the multivalent worlds of caste today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415585767
• ISBN-10: 0415585767
• Artikelnr.: 29930622

Autorenporträt

Ramesh Bairy is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and 1. Introduction: Seeking a Foothold 2. Question of Method:
Caste in/and/as Identity 3. The Modern World of Brahmins: A Schematic
History 4. Intersecting Voices, Shifting Identifications: Complicating the
Contours of the Non-Brahminical Othering of the Brahmin 5. The Bounds of
Agency: Engaging the Space of Brahmin Associations6. Identities and
Displacements: On the Selfhood of the Contemporary Brahmin 7. Agency and
Identity in the World of Brahmins Bibliography Index