Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today

ISBN-13: 9780415585767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 370 str.

Ramesh Bairy;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ramesh Bairy is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.