Understanding Caste
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Understanding Caste
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Author : Gail Omvedt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Understanding Caste written by Gail Omvedt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Buddhism and politics categories.
"Understanding Caste approaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation it shows how even secular minds remain imprisoned within the Brahmanical vision. And so it looks at the alternative traditions nurtured within dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looking at Indian society and history." --Synopsis on back cover.
Interrogating Caste
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Author : Dipankar Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2000
Interrogating Caste written by Dipankar Gupta and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Caste categories.
The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the individual castes. The idea of difference, and not hierarchy, determines the tendency of each caste to keep alive its discrete nature and this is also seen to be true of the various castes which occupy the same rank in the hierarchy. It is, in fact, the mechanics of power, both economic and political, that set the ground rules for caste behaviour, which also explains how traditionally opposed caste groups find it possible to align in the contemporary political scenario. With the help of empirical evidence from states like Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the author illustrates how any presumed correlations between caste loyalties and voting patterns are in reality quite invalid. Provocative and finely argued, Interrogating Caste is a remarkable work that provides fresh insight into caste as a social, political and economic reality.
Western Foundations Of The Caste System
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Author : Martin Fárek
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-07-07
Western Foundations Of The Caste System written by Martin Fárek and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-07 with Social Science categories.
This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions of Indian social reality. The dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ that we have today are results of originally Christian themes and questions. The authors of this collection show how this hypothesis can be applied beyond South Asia to the diasporic cultures that have made a home in Western countries, and how the inheritance of caste studies as structured by European scholarship impacts on our understanding of contemporary India and the Indians of the diaspora. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students of caste studies, India studies, religion in South Asia, postcolonial studies, history, anthropology and sociology.
Dalit Cosmos
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Author : Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-18
Dalit Cosmos written by Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic call for social justice. Written by a first-generation Kannada Dalit writer, the book provides an insider’s view of caste discrimination as the author has lived through and experienced it. It traces the roots of present-day activism against caste discrimination, the influence of Ambedkar, the rise of Hindutva, and the role of Dalit literatures in shaping discourses around caste in India. An invigorating collection of essays and speeches by Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of discrimination, literature, politics and political philosophy, exclusion studies, race, social justice, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.
Understanding Caste System
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Author : William Jones (Ph. D.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Understanding Caste System written by William Jones (Ph. D.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Caste categories.
From Priests To Untouchables Understanding The Caste System Civilizations Of India Social Studies 6th Grade Children S Geography Cultures Books
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Author : Baby Professor
language : en
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2020-12-31
From Priests To Untouchables Understanding The Caste System Civilizations Of India Social Studies 6th Grade Children S Geography Cultures Books written by Baby Professor and has been published by Speedy Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Use this dedicated book on social studies to better understand the caste system, and how it shaped the civilizations of India. The caste system was a social structure that basically branded citizens for life. It dictated the way of life, as well as the quality of living. Encourage your child to dive deep into the pool of knowledge by understanding one concept after another. Grab a copy today.
Homo Hierarchicus
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Author : Louis Dumont
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1980
Homo Hierarchicus written by Louis Dumont and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
Louis Dumont's modern classic, here presented in an enlarged, revised, and corrected second edition, simultaneously supplies that reader with the most cogent statement on the Indian caste system and its organizing principles and a provocative advance in the comparison of societies on the basis of their underlying ideologies. Dumont moves gracefully from the ethnographic data to the level of the hierarchical ideology encrusted in ancient religious texts which are revealed as the governing conception of the contemporary caste structure. On yet another plane of analysis, homo hierarchicus is contrasted with his modern Western antithesis, homo aequalis. This edition includes a lengthy new Preface in which Dumont reviews the academic discussion inspired by Homo Hierarchicus and answers his critics. A new Postface, which sketches the theoretical and comparative aspects of the concept of hierarchy, and three significant Appendixes previously omitted from the English translation complete this innovative and influential work.
Caste
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Author : Isabel Wilkerson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Caste written by Isabel Wilkerson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Social Science categories.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Caste In A Different Mould
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Author : R. K. Shukla
language : en
Publisher: Business Standard Books
Release Date : 2010
Caste In A Different Mould written by R. K. Shukla and has been published by Business Standard Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Caste-based discrimination categories.
From Priests To Untouchables Understanding The Caste System Civilizations Of India Social Studies 6th Grade Children S Geography Cultures Books
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Author : Baby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-31
From Priests To Untouchables Understanding The Caste System Civilizations Of India Social Studies 6th Grade Children S Geography Cultures Books written by Baby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-31 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.