Being brahmin being modern: Exploring the lives of caste today/
Ramesh Bairy
- London: Routledge, 2010.
- 357 p.
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.
9781136198205
Caste -- India -- History -- 20th century. Caste. India.