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Being Brahmin, Being Modern Exploring the Lives of Caste Today
By Ramesh Bairy
Copyright 2010
370 Pages
by
Routledge India
370 Pages
by
Routledge India
370 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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 –... Read more
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
Biography
Ramesh Bairy is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.
