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Author Bairy, Ramesh

Title Being Brahmin, Being Modern : Exploring the Lives of Caste Today
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages)
Contents Cover; Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 Associations; 6 Identities and Displacements: On the Selfhood of the Contemporary Brahmin; 7 Agency and Identity in the World of Brahmins; Bibliography; About the Author
Summary 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 o
Notes Includes index
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Subject Caste -- India -- History -- 20th century
Caste
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136198205
1136198202