Name: Brahmin and Non-Brahmin. Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present (en Inglés)
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Author: M.S.S. Pandian
ISBN: 9788178242217

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Brahmin and Non-Brahmin. Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Permanent Black

Autor

M.S.S. Pandian

Año

2007

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

286

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x14 cm

ISBN13

9788178242217

Brahmin and Non-Brahmin. Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Brahmin and Non-Brahmin. Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present (en Inglés)"

In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, regional-language and unconventional sources, M.S.S. Pandian unsettles the ‘self-evident’ quality of these two categories and opens up a rich theoretical-critical space to rethink and understand them. In the process of unravelling and historicizing the so-called ‘naturalness’ of ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’, this book also offers a new perspective on colonialism in South India. Stepping away from mainstream nationalist accounts of colonialism, it shows the ways in which colonialism was, for various strata of Tamil society, both a moment of crisis as well as one of possibilities.

The book argues that it was this dual and ambiguous quality of colonial rule which facilitated new ways of looking at the figure of the Brahmin, even as it enabled the making of a non-Brahmin identity.