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Caste Culture And Hegemony
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Author : Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa
language : en
Publisher: Sage Publications Limited
Release Date : 2004
Caste Culture And Hegemony written by Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa and has been published by Sage Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
It is widely believed that, because of its exceptional social development, the caste system in colonial Bengal differed considerably from the rest of India. Through a study of the complex interplay between caste, culture and power, this book convincingly demonstrates that Bengali Hindu society preserved the essentials of caste discrimination in colonial times, even while giving the outward appearance of having changed. Using empirical data combined with an impressive array of secondary sources, Dr Bandyopadhyay delineates the manner in which Hindu caste society maintained its cultural hegemony and structural cohesion. Starting with an examination of the relationship between caste and power, the book examines early cultural encounters between `high` Brahmanical tradition and the more egalitarian `popular` religious cults of the lower castes. It moves on to take a close look at the relationship between caste and gender showing the reasons why the reform movement for widow remarriage failed. It ends with an examination of the Hindu `partition` campaign, which appropriated dalit autonomous politics and made Hinduism the foundation of an emergent Indian national identity. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay breaks with many of the assumptions of two important schools of thought--the Dumontian and the subaltern--and takes instead a more nuanced approach to show how high caste hegemony has been able to perpetuate itself. He thus takes up issues which go to the heart of contemporary problems in India`s social and political fabric.
Caste Culture And Hegemony
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Author : Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2004-08-19
Caste Culture And Hegemony written by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-19 with Social Science categories.
It is widely believed that, because of its exceptional social development, the caste system in colonial Bengal differed considerably from the rest of India. Through a study of the complex interplay between caste, culture and power, this book convincingly demonstrates that Bengali Hindu society preserved the essentials of caste discrimination in colonial times, even while giving the outward appearance of having changed. Using empirical data combined with an impressive array of secondary sources, Dr Bandyopadhyay delineates the manner in which Hindu caste society maintained its cultural hegemony and structural cohesion. Starting with an examination of the relationship between caste and power, the book examines early cultural encounters between `high` Brahmanical tradition and the more egalitarian `popular` religious cults of the lower castes. It moves on to take a close look at the relationship between caste and gender showing the reasons why the reform movement for widow remarriage failed. It ends with an examination of the Hindu `partition` campaign, which appropriated dalit autonomous politics and made Hinduism the foundation of an emergent Indian national identity. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay breaks with many of the assumptions of two important schools of thoughte"the Dumontian and the subalterne"and takes instead a more nuanced approach to show how high caste hegemony has been able to perpetuate itself. He thus takes up issues which go to the heart of contemporary problems in India`s social and political fabric.
Hierarchy And Its Discontents
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Author : Steven M. Parish
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-11-11
Hierarchy And Its Discontents written by Steven M. Parish and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-11 with Social Science categories.
The caste system fascinates Western scholars because it forms the basis for South Asian society—but how does it affect its participants?
The Making Of Brahmanic Hegemony
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Author : Suvira Jaiswal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Making Of Brahmanic Hegemony written by Suvira Jaiswal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with categories.
This book is a collection of essays - both published and unpublished - about the creation of Brahmanical hegemony through the institutions of caste, gender, and religious ideology in the history of early India. The essays focus on the role played by religion and mythology in the making of this hegemony.
Culture Ideology Hegemony
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Author : K. N. Panikkar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Culture Ideology Hegemony written by K. N. Panikkar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This Work Is An Attempt To Understand And Explain How Indians Under Colonial Subjugation, Came To Terms With Their Past And Present, And Thus Envisioned A Future For Their Society. It Covers A Wide Range Of Issues, Moving From An Overview Of Religious And Social Ideas In Colonial India To More Empirical Studies Of Themes Like Indigenous Medicine, Family And Literary Fiction.
The Culturalization Of Caste In India
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Author : Balmurli Natrajan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-31
The Culturalization Of Caste In India written by Balmurli Natrajan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-31 with Political Science categories.
In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy. Based on original fieldwork, the book shows how the terrain of culture captured by a new grammar of caste revitalizes castes as cultural communities so that the culture of a caste is produced, organized and naturalized in the process of transforming jati (fetishized blood and kinship) into samaj (fetishized culture). Castes are shown to not be homogenous cultural wholes but sites of hegemony where class, gender and hierarchy over-determine the meanings and materiality of caste. Arguing that there exists a new casteism in India akin to a new racism in the USA, built less on biology and descent and more on purported cultural differences and their rights to exist, the book presents an extended critique and a search for an alternative view of caste and anti-casteist politics. It is of interest to students and scholars of South Asian culture and society.
Eight Faces Of Revenge
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Author : Vibha S. Chauhan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-11-26
Eight Faces Of Revenge written by Vibha S. Chauhan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-26 with Social Science categories.
Interesting, informative, exploratory, the book attempts to interrogate the emotion of revenge. Combining academic discourses with popular representations, it moves across cultures and countries like India, Germany, USA, Africa and Brazil.
Transaction And Hierarchy
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Author : Harald Tambs-Lyche
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-09
Transaction And Hierarchy written by Harald Tambs-Lyche and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-09 with History categories.
In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, and current changes are no more radical than in the past, for caste has evolved throughout its history. It is not a colonial invention, nor does it result from weak state control. There is no single form of Indian kingship, and power relations, fundamental as they are for understanding Indian society. Nor do Indian villages conform to a single type, and caste is as much urban as rural. Only in a regional ‘local’ perspective can we view it as a ‘system’. Caste does offer space for the individual, though in a particular Indian mould, and Hinduism does not provide for an integration of castes through ritual. In short, social organization varies widely in India, and cannot provide the key to the specificity of caste. This must be sought in the way society is imagined, the models of society current in Indian thought. Of course as mentioned above, there is no single model: Brahmins, kings, and merchants among others have all produced alternative models with themselves at the centre, vying for hegemony, while facing contesting models held by subalterns. Still, a hierarchical mode of thought is hegemonic and largely explains why Indians see their social stratification differently from people in the West. The volume will be indispensable for scholars of South Asian Sociology and Culture.
Resistance To Caste Hegemony And Caste Apartheid In The Prose Writings Of V T Rajshekar
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Author : Dr GrishmaManikrao Khobragade
language : en
Publisher: Archers & Elevators Publishing House
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Resistance To Caste Hegemony And Caste Apartheid In The Prose Writings Of V T Rajshekar written by Dr GrishmaManikrao Khobragade and has been published by Archers & Elevators Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Castes Of Mind
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Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-09
Castes Of Mind written by Nicholas B. Dirks and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-09 with Social Science categories.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.