Being Brahmin, Being Modern

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  • Being Brahmin, Being Modern Book Detail

  • Author : Ramesh Bairy T. S.
  • Release Date : 2010
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 372
  • ISBN 13 : 0415585767
  • File Size : 43,43 MB
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Being Brahmin, Being Modern by Ramesh Bairy T. S. PDF Summary

Book Description: Political and academic interest in the idea of the Brahmin notwithstanding, there has been virtually no engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book seeks to address this intriguing paradox in the context of Brahmins in modern-day Karnataka. The book argues that the multivalent worlds of contemporary caste demand that we constantly innovate different modes of approaching it. With this intent, it positions itself against the monographic form and weaves together an ethnography with diverse research techniques such as archival documents, literary works and published writings of caste associations. The Brahmin today, the author argues, cannot be adequately understood as a caste-self that masks its casteness in order to present itself as a secular self. Neither can the Brahmin be seen as a subject that has successfully transcended casteness. As the title of the book suggests, the central tensions that animate the Brahmin self is that of being both Brahmin and modern.

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