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Author : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189524876
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India written by Uma Chakravarti and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suvira Jaiswal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788193926918
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book The Making of Brahmanic Hegemony written by Suvira Jaiswal and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays - both published and unpublished - about the creation of Brahmanical hegemony through the institutions of caste, gender, and religious ideology in the history of early India. The essays focus on the role played by religion and mythology in the making of this hegemony.
Author : Ghazala Jamil
Publisher : Social Change in Contemporary
ISBN 13 : 9789353887742
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Women in Social Change written by Ghazala Jamil and published by Social Change in Contemporary. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the history of the women's rights movement in India and discusses achievements and setbacks.
Author : Richard M. Eaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520205079
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.
Author : Kumkum Sangari
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813515809
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Recasting Women written by Kumkum Sangari and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and social life of India in the last decade has given rise to a variety of questions concerning the nature and resilience of patriarchal systems in a transitional and post-colonial society. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recognize that every aspect of reality is gendered, and that such a recognition involves a dismantling of the ideological presuppositions of the so-called gender neutral ideologies, as well as the boundaries of individual disciplines.
Author : Uma Chakravarti
Publisher : Tulika Books
ISBN 13 : 9788189487959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories written by Uma Chakravarti and published by Tulika Books. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays moves the historiography of ancient India in the service of a history of the present. The cultural onslaught of a brahmanical saffron culture within popular discourse, and the fight against entrenched class and caste interests led by women, dalits, and other marginalized groups, frame this battle for 'ancient' India. Through an in-depth analysis of myths and original sources, the author provides novel grounds for contesting the foundations of such charged concepts as 'nation', 'civilization, ' and 'womanly honour'. Reading against the grain of canonical sources, she presents a distinctive reading of lesser known Buddhist Pali texts, the Jataka stories, and even contemporary texts like the TV serials Chanakya and Ramayana, to demonstrate the stratifications in early Indian society. The book brings to light several crucial concepts and categories that make possible a sensitive delineation of social alienation, class antagonism and gendered violence in ancient Indian society. The everyday histories of dasas, karmakaras, 'a'grihinis, bhaktins, and gahapatis provide an understanding of ancient India away from the clichéd invocations of ideal kings, brahmanas, and pativratas.
Author : Srividya Natarajan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143099611
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (996 download)
Download or read book No Onions Nor Garlic written by Srividya Natarajan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amandeep, Murugesh, Rufus And Sundar Are Bucks Who Talk Dirty For The Same Reason That They Remove The Mufflers From Their Motorcycle Exhausts It Makes Them Feel Like Men. Like Libertines. To Their Hormonal Despair, When Professor Ram Stages His Remake Of A Midsummer Night'S Dream At Their College Fest, He Casts These Four As Fairies. The Farce That Follows Gradually Takes Over The Lives Of The Rest Of The Characters In This Achingly Funny Novel About The Pratfalls That Accompany Caste Pride. On And Off The Campus Of Chennai University, You Will Encounter Onion-And-Garlic-Free Tambrahms Who Rewrite Shakespeare To Uphold The Hindu Order, Smug Nris Who Call The Shots In Matrimonials, Visiting Canadians Who Are Aghast At The Plight Of Dalits (Pronounced Daylights') And, At The Apex Of The Whole Tumbling Structure, A Bibulous Builder Who Invokes The Gods Even As He Defrauds His Clients. Tailing The Characters Around This Plot Is An Unseen But All-Seeing Spectator. You May Never Guess Who That Is, But Will Laugh All The Way To The Answer.
Author : Arundhati Roy
Publisher : Haymarket Books+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1608467988
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Doctor and the Saint written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books+ORM. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of Gandhi’s reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India’s downtrodden. Democracy hasn’t eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day by the caste system. Roy states that for more than a half century, Gandhi’s pronouncements on the inherent qualities of black Africans, Dalit “untouchables,” and the laboring classes remained consistently insulting, and he also refused to allow lower castes to create their own political organizations and elect their own representatives. But there was someone else who had a larger vision of justice—a founding father of the republic and the chief architect of its constitution. In The Doctor and the Saint, Roy introduces us to this contemporary of Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, who challenged the thinking of the time and fought to promote not merely formal democracy, but liberation from the oppression, shame, and poverty imposed on millions of Indians by an archaic caste system. This is a fascinating and surprising look at two men—one of whom has become a worldwide symbol and the other of whom remains unfamiliar to most outside his native country. Praise for Arundhati Roy “Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness.” —Junot Díaz “The fierceness with which Arundhati Roy loves humanity moves my heart.” —Alice Walker
Author : Uma Chakraborty
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788185604541
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens written by Uma Chakraborty and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps, for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus in the workings of the caste system to reveal the underlying violence and coercion that perpetuate a severely hierarchical and unequal society. The subordination of women and the control of female sexuality are crucial to the maintenance of the caste system, creating what feminist scholars have termed brahmanical patriarchy. She discusses the range of patriarchal practices within the larger framework of sexuality, labour and access to material resources, and also focuses on the centrality of endogamous marriages that maintain the system. Erudite yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis.
Author : Henrike Donner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317148487
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Domestic Goddesses written by Henrike Donner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies and the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often competing ideologies and multiple practices. And by drawing attention to women's agency as wives, mothers and grandmothers within these new frameworks, Domestic Goddesses discusses the experiences of different age groups affected by these changes. Through a careful analysis of women's narratives, the domestic sphere is shown to represent the key site for the remaking of Indian middle-class citizens in a global world.
Author : Richa Nagar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051416
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Hungry Translations written by Richa Nagar and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts often assume that the poor, hungry, rural, and/or precarious need external interventions. They frequently fail to recognize how the same people create politics and knowledge by living and honing their own dynamic visions. How might scholars and teachers working in the Global North ethically participate in producing knowledge in ways that connect across different meanings of struggle, hunger, hope, and the good life?Informed by over twenty years of experiences in India and the United States, Hungry Translations bridges these divides with a fresh approach to academic theorizing. Through in-depth reflections on her collaborations with activists, theatre artists, writers, and students, Richa Nagar discusses the ongoing work of building embodied alliances among those who occupy different locations in predominant hierarchies. She argues that such alliances can sensitively engage difference through a kind of full-bodied immersion and translation that refuses comfortable closures or transparent renderings of meanings. While the shared and unending labor of politics makes perfect translation--or retelling--impossible, hungry translations strive to make our knowledges more humble, more tentative, and more alive to the creativity of struggle.
Author : Surinder S. Jodhka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896719
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Caste written by Surinder S. Jodhka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
Author : Suddhabrata Deb Roy
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837978557
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (379 download)
Download or read book 'Natural’ Disasters and Everyday Lives written by Suddhabrata Deb Roy and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising that these issues are addressed quite differently in the Global North, Suddhabrata Deb Roy connects flooding in northeastern India to the context of the broader politics surrounding climate change and climate justice in the Global South, making this book important and powerful reading for countering today’s climate emergency.
Author : Sunaina Arya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000651487
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Dalit Feminist Theory written by Sunaina Arya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely, that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, the chapters in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian feminism versus Dalit feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism, such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between Black feminism and Dalit feminism; the intersectionality debate; and the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual, historical, empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today. Accessible, essential and ingenious in its approach, this book is for students, teachers and specialist scholars, as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies, women’s studies, sociology of caste, political science and political theory, philosophy and feminism, Ambedkar studies, and for anyone working in the areas of caste, class or gender-based discrimination, exclusion and inequality.
Author : Nasir Uddin
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031136152
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork written by Nasir Uddin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers epistemologically and ontologically important personal accounts of academic and professional researchers having long-term intensive, comprehensive and ethnographic fieldwork in various social settings and versatile regional contexts across the globe. The accounts are cross-disciplinary including anthropology, sociology, geography, political sciences, gender studies, forestry and environmental studies, economics, and international relations. They are also trans-regional, covering the globe including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America. The book offers a comprehensive portrait of multifaceted challenges that social researchers experience while doing fieldwork in various social settings. The accounts provide both challenges of doing fieldwork in the 21st century and the ways how to address/redress them in the field by complying with the codes of ethics, and the politics of fieldwork. Readers will benefit from the handbook by understanding methodological issues from both disciplinary relevance and regional specificity across time and spaces.
Author : Sudarshana Sen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040109586
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Women in Bengal written by Sudarshana Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the status of women in Bengal, India, by examining the versatile everyday living conditions of women, and how they are represented as individuals and as a category in the media. Contributors to the book start their discussion from the point that women in India have a varied experience of living, thinking, and acting specific to the regional cultural context. Caste ideology specified privileges and sanctions according to innate attributes, differ by sex as well as ethnicity, class, caste, minority status, and marginal position intersect lives and render unique life experiences. With a focus on women and their lived experiences, performances by them and performances imitating women’s roles, the book offers a complex and rich analysis of the reality of women’s lives based on research and reflections by 25 scholars. Organised into two sections, the book presents women in reality, their living conditions, struggles, and women as represented in films, stories, framed in plots sometimes by women and sometimes by men. The chapters provide insights on how institutionalised gender distinctions create subordination and marginality of women and their struggles to survive in a society dominated by heteropatriarchal ideology and its practice. This book improves our understanding of various dimensions of gender and transgender relations in India. It will be of interest to researchers in Gender Studies, South Asian Culture and Society, and Studies on India.
Author : Pinky Hota
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824860
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Violence of Recognition written by Pinky Hota and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India’s history. Through vivid ethnographic storytelling, Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between two historically marginalized groups—the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits (previously referred to as “untouchables”). Hota documents how Hindutva mobilization led to large-scale violence, culminating in attacks against many thousands of Pana Dalits in the district of Kandhamal in 2008. Bringing indigenous studies as well as race and ethnic studies into conversation with Dalit studies, Hota shows that, despite attempts to frame these ethnonationalist tensions as an indigenous population’s resistance against disenfranchisement, Kandha hostility against the Pana must be understood as anti-Christian, anti-Dalit violence animated by racial capitalism. Hota’s analysis of caste in relation to race and religion details how Hindu nationalists exploit the singular and exclusionary legal recognition of Adivasis and the putatively liberatory, anti-capitalist discourse of indigeneity in order to justify continued oppression of Dalits—particularly those such as the Pana. Because the Pana lost their legal protection as recognized minorities (Scheduled Caste) upon conversion to Christianity, they struggle for recognition within the Indian state’s classificatory scheme. Within the framework of recognition, Hota shows, indigeneity works as a political technology that reproduces the political, economic, and cultural exclusion of landless marginalized groups such as Dalits. The Violence of Recognition reveals the violent implications of minority recognition in creating and maintaining hierarchies of racial capitalism.
