Being brahmin being modern: Exploring the lives of caste today/ Ramesh Bairy
Material type: TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2010Description: 357 pISBN: 9781136198205Subject(s): Caste -- India -- History -- 20th century | Caste | IndiaDDC classification: 305.52Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Cover; Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements;
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 Associations;
6 Identities and Displacements: On the Selfhood of the Contemporary Brahmin;
7 Agency and Identity in the World of Brahmins;
Bibliography; About the Author.
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