[PDF] Brahmin And Non Brahmin eBook

Author : Va Kītā
Publisher : Bhatkal & Sen
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Foreign Language Study
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The Revised Edition Of The History Of Non-Brahmin Assertion To Brahmin Hegemony In The Old Madras Presidency Argues That This Complex And Layered Pst Has To Be Critically Reclaimed For Our Times. An Analytical Study Of The Gestation Of The Movement, Of Its Forebears Like Lyothee Thass And His Contemporaries, The Book Also Provides An Incisive Discussion On The Contributions Of Periyar, E. V. Ramasami, The Pathbreaking Founder Of The Self-Respect Movement.

Author : Ramesh Bairy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136198199

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There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today’s Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry – the persona of the ‘Brahmin’ embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation–contestation and dominance–resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste — its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become ‘subjects’ of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.

Author : Justice Party
Publisher : DStock
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Political Science
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A Conference took place in Madras on 20th November 1916. It was attended by several Non-Brahmin gentlemen of position and influence. They came from both Madras and from the mofussil. In that conference, it was resolved that measures be taken to start a company for publishing a newspaper advocating the cause of the Non-Brahmin community, and also that a political association be formed to advance, safeguard and protect the interests of the same community. In accordance with this, a Joint-Stock Company was started under the name of “South Indian People’s Association” for conducting a daily newspaper in English, Tamil and Telugu, respectively, and also a Political Association has been form d under the name of “The South Indian Liberal Federation”. On 20th December 1926, the Secretary of The South Indian People’s Association, Rao Bahadur P. Theagaraya Chettiar issued a Manifesto addressed to all the Non-Brahmin gentlemen throughout the presidency. The Manifesto spoke about various issues like Public Services, Public Institutions, Education, Need for an Organisation, Progressive Political Development, Self Governance based on Equal Devolution of Powers, duties of Non Brahmins The Manifesto is relevant even after 100 years, more so at present and that has prompted us to publish this booklet

Author : Gilles Chuyen
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
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Brahmin Identity Is Not An Absolute Notion And This Book Aims At Understanding This Dialogue Between Identity And Otherness, Creating Phenomena Of Differentiation. It Questions The Notion In Todays Context Through The Contextualization Of Discourses Emerging From Contemporary Middle Class Brahmins Settled In Delhi, Agra And Chennai. The Study Falls Within The Framework Of An Analysis Of The Cultural Context Of Politics.

Author : C. J. Fuller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 022615274X

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The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."

Author : B. R. Ambedkar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0231551517

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One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression of and discrimination against Dalits remains pervasive. Ambedkar offers a deductive, and at times a speculative, history to propose a genealogy of Untouchability. He contends that modern-day Dalits are descendants of those Buddhists who were fenced out of caste society and rendered Untouchable by a resurgent Brahminism since the fourth century BCE. The Brahmins, whose Vedic cult originally involved the sacrifice of cows, adapted Buddhist ahimsa and vegetarianism to stigmatize outcaste Buddhists who were consumers of beef. The outcastes were soon relegated to the lowliest of occupations and prohibited from participation in civic life. To unearth this lost history, Ambedkar undertakes a forensic examination of a wide range of Brahminic literature. Heavily annotated with an emphasis on putting Ambedkar and recent scholarship into conversation, Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men assumes urgency as India witnesses unprecedented violence against Dalits and Muslims in the name of cow protection.

Author : Katherine K. Young
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Caste-based discrimination
ISBN : 9788194925880

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"This book studies the interlinking of religious, social and political identities in modern Tamil Nadu. Through interviews with non-Brahmin Srivaisnavas of many castes, but especially belonging to the lower-caste groups, it analyses their histories of discrimination, their negotiation of lived realities, and hopes for the future. The interviews all refer to the history of Srivaisnavism, an historically important Hindu sect in the region, the religion's theology of caste inclusiveness, and history of Brahmin leadership exclusiveness.In addition, the author also addresses colonial changes, Telugu connections, the non-Brahmin movement, Dalit mobilisation, post-Independence caste hierarchies, government policies, party politics, Brahmin reactions, court cases, and inter-religious competition.Turbulent Transformations breaks new ground by highlighting radical non-Brahmin leaders in the colonial period. It probes the Srivaisnava connections of prominent political figures such as Periyar and Jayalalithaa. And it explores the relation of the temples, the state, and the Supreme Court over questions such as 'who is allowed to be a priest'.This book provides insights into new configurations of democracy, caste and modern lived Hinduism. It fills the lacunae created by Brahmin narratives, scholarly studies focused on Tamil Saivism or Christianity, and political and sociological analyses removed from the dynamic pulse of religion in interaction with the non-Brahmin movement over the past century."--