The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste -- its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become 'subjects' of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.
Exploring the Lives of Caste Today
Hardback
Publication Date: 28/07/2010
There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today's Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry -- the persona of the 'Brahmin' embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation--contestation and dominance--resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste.
The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste -- its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become 'subjects' of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.
The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste -- its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become 'subjects' of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.
- ISBN:
- 9780415585767
- 9780415585767
- Category:
- Regional studies
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 28-07-2010
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 370
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x138x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.84kg
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