Recasting Caste
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Recasting Caste
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Author : Hira Singh
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Recasting Caste written by Hira Singh and has been published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Social Science categories.
Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber’s distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and deflect attention from intracaste differentiation and inequality. In contrast, by focusing on intracaste differences, Professor Singh demonstrates that caste hierarchy is grounded in a monopoly of land rights and political power supported by religious and secular ideology. Drawing on the sociological, anthropological and historical literature, as well as primary sources, Recasting Caste refutes the widespread claim that, in India, caste consciousness always trumps class consciousness. It questions the twin myths that caste is a product of Hinduism and that caste is essential to the survival of Hinduism. It thereby reorients the entire field of study.
From Chamar To Ravidassi
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Author : Jaimal Sandhu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
From Chamar To Ravidassi written by Jaimal Sandhu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Caste State And Society
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Author : Jagpal Singh
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-10-07
Caste State And Society written by Jagpal Singh and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-07 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized. The author situates these groups within democracy and utilizes a multicultural framework to understand why and when various castes have sought to achieve recognition and redistributive justice; to what extent different castes have been able to achieve these goals; and how civil society has engaged with these issues. Unlike dominant discourses on caste and democracy, which give primacy to electoral/procedural democracy over the substantive one, this book views the relationship between castes and the state in both dimensions of democracy. An important addition to the study of caste politics in India, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social exclusion, development studies, minority studies, sociology and social policy, politics, and South Asian studies. It will also be of importance to politicians, policy makers, and civil society activists.
Decentering Translation Studies
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Author : Judy Wakabayashi
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Decentering Translation Studies written by Judy Wakabayashi and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book foregrounds practices and discourses of translation in several non-Western traditions. Translation Studies currently reflects the historiography and concerns of Anglo-American and European scholars, overlooking the full richness of translational activities and diverse discourses. The essays in this book, which generally have a historical slant, help push back the geographical and conceptual boundaries of the discipline. They illustrate how distinctive historical, social and philosophical contexts have shaped the ways in which translational acts are defined, performed, viewed, encouraged or suppressed in different linguistic communities. The volume has a particular focus on the multiple contexts of translation in India, but also encompasses translation in Korea, Japan and South Africa, as well as representations of Sufism in different contexts."
Caste Communication And Power
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Author : Biswajit Das
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publishing India
Release Date : 2021-07-12
Caste Communication And Power written by Biswajit Das and has been published by SAGE Publishing India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-12 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Caste, Communication and Power explores communication and the constitution of caste in Indian society. Intimately connected, both communication and caste are determined by historical developments. The book looks at communication as a lens to study caste and power relations, with its immense potential to shape perception and affect ground reality. It also studies the evolution of the conceptual and theoretical foundations of caste and power relations, and maps their emergence from communicative resources and practices. These communication practices are inevitably linked to the social structure, with their reliance on symbolic forms of self-expression, often revealing the underlying ideological attitudes. The book studies this interface of culture and media, evaluating the caste question and the associated power relations in terms of modes of communication practised in the society.
Recasting The Devadasi
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Author : Priyadarshini Vijaisri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Recasting The Devadasi written by Priyadarshini Vijaisri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Devadāsīs categories.
Dalits
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Author : Anand Teltumbde
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Dalits written by Anand Teltumbde and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Political Science categories.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, Dalits still suffer exclusion on various counts. The book traces the multifarious changes that befell them through history, germination of Dalit consciousness during the colonial period and its f lowering under the legendary leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar. It provides critical insights to their degeneration during the post-Ambedkar period, taking stock of all significant developments therein such as the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Dalit capitalism, NGOization of the Dalit discourse and the various implicit or explicit emancipation schemas thrown up by them. It also discusses ideology, implicit strategy and tactics of the Dalit movement, touches upon one of the most contentious issues of increasing divergence between the Dalit and Marxist movements, and delineates the role of the state, both colonial and post-colonial, in shaping Dalit politics in particular ways. This new edition includes a new chapter providing the causal analysis of the rise of Hindutva under Narendra Modi, its fascist march obliterating the idea of India sketched out by the Constitution, and forecasts its future as the Hindu Rashtra – the Brahmanic-fascist state – which has been the goal of its progenitors. A tour de force, this book brings to the fore many key contemporary concerns and will be of great interest to activists, students, scholars and teachers of politics, political economy, sociology, anthropology, history and social exclusion studies.
Caste And The City
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Author : Deeba Zafir
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-21
Caste And The City written by Deeba Zafir and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book looks at Dalits in the city and examines the nature of Dalit aspirations as well as the making of an urban sensibility through an analysis of hitherto unexamined short stories of some of the first- and second-generation as well as contemporary Dalit writers in Hindi. Tracing the origins of the emergence of Dalit critical consciousness to the arrival of the Dalits into the print medium, after their migration to the city, this book examines their transactions with modernity and the emancipatory promises it held out to them. It highlights the literary tropes that mark their fiction, specifically those short stories which take up urban themes, and shows how even in seemingly caste-neutral spaces caste discrimination is present. The book also undertakes an examination of the stories by contemporary Dalit women writers in Hindi – Rajat Rani Meenu and Anita Bharti – who have posed a radical challenge to both the mainstream feminist movement and the Dalit movement. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature, especially Hindi literature, Dalit studies, subaltern history, postcolonial studies, political science, and sociology as well as the informed general reader.
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.
Recasting The Coolie
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Author : Najnin Islam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Recasting The Coolie written by Najnin Islam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
This dissertation reassesses the figure of the Indian indentured laborer or coolie in the post-emancipation context of the British Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. While contemporary scholarship characterizes the New World coolie as the product of a nineteenth-century racialized division of labor, "Recasting the Coolie" argues that this figure needs to be apprehended in relation to British imperial discourses on caste. By demonstrating the long and articulated histories of race and caste, it revises conversations in the field of critical race studies that have made these categories seem relatively disconnected from one another. Through close engagement with nineteenth-century and contemporary Anglophone literature on plantation colonies such as British Guiana, Trinidad, and Mauritius alongside government reports, journals, and diaries culled from extensive research in British colonial archives, "Recasting the Coolie" traces the mechanics of colonial governmentality that produced the laboring body of the coolie, showing how those mechanics interrupt liberal ideas of freedom that attach to the practice of wage labor. It further demonstrates the ways in which an appositional reading of these diverse textual materials allows us to comprehend both the processes that shaped the coolies and their experience of indentured servitude. Combining close reading of fiction with speculative approaches to the colonial archive it draws out traces of coolie agency, particularly the manner in which they responded to the conditions of their own servitude and how they negotiated their caste and racial identities. This dissertation reads indentureship not just as a material labor relation but also a critical lens that illuminates a particular vision of globality. If, as Pheng Cheah and Sanjay Krishnan argue, the global is more than just a descriptive category, if it names a mode of bringing the world into view, then contemporary Anglophone fiction on indentureship does so by theorizing the long and connected histories of race and caste from dominant and subaltern perspectives.