Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History by Banerjee, Prathama

Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History

The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been...
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Author: Prathama Banerjee
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Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History by Banerjee, Prathama

Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History

¥42,855

Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages: Hierarchy, Humanity and Equality in Indian History

¥42,855
Author: Prathama Banerjee
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqued in multiple philosophical, religious, logical and narrative traditions in India. Spanning ancient, medieval and modern times, and in diverse classical and vernacular languages, the chapters show how the social fact of caste, and imaginations of kinship, community and humanity were historically subject to epistemological, spiritual, and existential debate in both elite and popular circles in India.

Textual Lives of Caste Across the Ages seeks to bridge the interdisciplinary gap between historians and sociologists by focusing on texts that help us think across the sociological and philosophical, the political and the religious, the epistemological and the aesthetic, and indeed, the elite and the popular. The volume also sets up a conversation between scholars specializing in different regions, archives, and historical periods and demonstrates how caste imaginaries have been deeply diverse and contested in India's past. Reconstructing these diverse traditions of social and existential criticism helps us in our contemporary struggles against caste hierarchy and untouchability and enriches our contemporary critical repertoire.

Author: Prathama Banerjee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 11/14/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781350355019

About the Author
Prathama Banerjee is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. A historian of 19th- and 20th-century India, her research interests include political, intellectual and cultural history. Her most recent book is Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Duke University Press, 2020).

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