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.
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.
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
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
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