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Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Ways of Knowing in Twentieth Century Malabar

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Gebonden, 240 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2023
ISBN13: 9781009273121
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Caste, Knowledge, and Power investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuing of these oppressive practices. The author situates the domination and subordination in the domain of knowledge production in India not just in the emergence of colonial modernity but in the formation of colonial–Brahminical modernity. It engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial–Brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual hierarchy) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge.

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ISBN13:9781009273121
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:240

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Acknowledgements; Notes of Transliteration; Introduction: Caste, Knowledge, and Power; 1. An Ashari World of Knowing; 2. An Ashari World of Ignoring; 3. A Nampoothiri World of Acharam; 4. Nampoothiris and the Order of Knowledge; 5. Asharis and the Order of Knowledge; Postscript: Towards and Artisanal Way of Practice of Knowing; Bibliography; Index.

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