| Description |
1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Cover -- Caste, Knowledge, and Power -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Transliteration -- Introduction: Caste, Knowledge, and Power -- A User's Manual for the Book -- Notes -- 1 An Ashari World of Knowing -- Knowing in the Ashari World -- Knowing in Other Worlds: The World of Plants -- Knowing in Other Worlds: The World of Dominant Jatis -- Knowing in Other Worlds: The World of the Sayip -- Notes -- 2 An Ashari World of Ignoring -- Ignorance and Ignoring -- Historical Conditions for Ignoring -- Colonial Attempts of Assimilation |
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Strategies of Ignoring: Locating Asharippani in Desham -- Strategies of Ignoring: Colonialism as a Vicious Time -- Strategies of Ignoring: Social Boycott of the Collaborators -- Strategies of Mobilizing: Conversations and Storytelling -- Asharippani and Gender and Caste Differentiation -- Notes -- 3 A Nampoothiri World of Acharam -- Acharam and Daily Lives of Nampoothiris -- The Challenges to the Order of Acharam -- The Yoga Kshema Sabha (YKS) and the Protection of Acharam -- Tradition, Traditional Knowledge, and Acharam -- The Disconnect between Knowledge and Acharam |
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Acharam and Gender Differentiation -- Notes -- 4 Nampoothiris and the Order of Knowledge -- The Nampoothiri Yuvajana Sangham and the Emergence of the Order of Knowledge -- Reconstituting Acharam in the Order of Knowledge -- Nampoothiris as Hindus: A Nationalist Concept of Jati -- From Hierarchy to Dichotomy: Savarnas and Avarnas -- Gender and the Order of Knowledge -- Notes -- 5 Asharis and the Order of Knowledge -- Economical and Technical Forces of Change -- Asharis in the Order of Knowedge -- Between the Practice of Knowing and the Production of Knowledge |
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The Vishwakarma Identity and the Nationalization of Caste -- Notes -- Postscript: Towards an Artisanal Way of Practice of Knowing -- Power, Force, and Knowledge Production -- Indian Context: From Brahmanical to Savarna Power-Knowledge -- Dreams about a Decolonized Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives -- Reports -- Books and Articles -- Index |
| Summary |
Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial-Brahmanical forms of knowledge production |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Caste -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Learning and scholarship -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Power (Social sciences) -- India -- History -- 20th century
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Caste.
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Ethnic relations.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Power (Social sciences)
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Social conditions.
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Malabar (India) -- Ethnic relations
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Malabar (India) -- Social conditions
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India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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India.
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India -- Malabar.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009281917 |
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9781009281911 |
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