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Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today Paperback – January 21, 2016

by Ramesh Bairy (Author)
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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.

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Ramesh Bairy is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge India; 1st edition (January 21, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 370 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138662682
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138662681
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 16 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.43 x 0.84 x 8.5 inches
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This is one of the most articulated monograph on caste identity from the other side. The reader needs to be a little patient to adapt to rigorous style of writing. However, once one succeeds to navigate first 30- 40 pages, it is extremely enriching to read not only about the brahmins and their caste identity but also their transformation from rural identity to urban identity that made them grapple with the questions of brahminsness and modernity at the same time.
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Wonderful, illuminating book. Beautifully written.
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