Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-27312-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

K. N., Sunandan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtswissenschaft: Theorie und Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

K. N., Sunandan
K. N. Sunandan is Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Azim Premji University (APU), Bengaluru. Prior to joining APU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Developing Societies, New Delhi, as part of the Transnational Research Group project funded by the Max Weber Foundation, Germany. He has also taught at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tulajapur. Besides his academic pursuits, he writes in Malayalam and has authored several articles and short stories.