Renunciation and Untouchability in India: The Notional and the Empirical in the Caste Order

ISBN-13: 9781138594555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str.

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Opis

This volume explores the idea of ‘Brahmin’ and the practice of untouchability by offering a scholarly reading of ancient and medieval texts. It will be an essential read for the scholars and researchers of political studies, political philosophy, cultural studies, Dalit studies, Indology, sociology, social anthropology and Ambedkar studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Notional Brahmin and The Idea of Original  1. The ‘Ideal’ Brahmin and The Dead Being  2. Physical body and Social body  3. Brahmin Householder as Renouncer  4. Touch-un-ability and ‘Ideal’ Brahmin  5. Translating Touch-un-ability  Conclusion: The Dead Being is still Alive

O autorze

Srinivasa Ramanujam is a Tamil writer and translator. He has translated and published the collected essays of D.R. Nagaraj, as well as plays of Sundar Sarukkai, and essays by Ashis Nandy, M.S.S. Pandian, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Gopal Guru. He is the author of Tharkolaigalai Kondaduvom and Sanyasamum Theendamayum. He was formerly a theatre activist and has directed plays of Bertolt Brecht, Kingsley Bass (Jr.), and Siegfried Lenz.