Being Brahmin, being modern : exploring the lives of caste today
- Author/Creator:
- Bairy T. S., Ramesh
- Publication/Creation:
- Bew Delhi ; New York : Routledge, 2010
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Being Brahmin, being modern : exploring the lives of caste today / Ramesh Bairy T.S.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Brahmans--India--History--20th century
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today's Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry -- the persona of the 'Brahmin' embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation-contestation and dominance-resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste -- its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become 'subjects' of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self." - - Routledge.com web site.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xi, 357 pages ; 23 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990016713170302486
- ISBN:
- 0415585767
9780415585767 - OCLC Number:
- 526111392
- Barcode:
- 010002501132
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