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...Brian A. Hatcher © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Indigent Brahmans, Industrious Pandits: Bourgeois Ideology and Sanskrit Pandits in Colonial Calcutta Brian A. Hatcher Introduction...

...Nicholas Witkowski [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 This article contributes to the body of scholarship that is critical of overreliance on what Johannes Bronkhorst has called the “Brahmanization” model of historical transformation in late...

... to politics flows from a dawning realization that the mainstream political sphere no longer shares its concept of merit, since a new political consensus about reservations is now apparent even in the most Brahmanic and right-wing of established political parties. The essay then attempts to come to terms...

... and cultural emancipation that was used not only to challenge colonial rule but also to further numerous anti-caste movements against existing Brahmanical institutions and practices. While the history of anti-caste and Dalit engagements with Buddhism has largely been studied through a discussion of the Indian...

... , 1985 . ———. “ Recovering the Subject: Subaltern Studies and Histories of Resistance in Colonial South Asia .” Modern Asian Studies 22 ( 1988 ): 189 – 224 . Omvedt Gail . Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930 . Bombay...

... himself as the heir to a millennia-old non-Brahmanical philosophical tradition that Phule and Ambedkar had recovered for the modern age. It is a tradition that is, at its core, anti-hierarchical and committed to a critique of institutions of exploitation and governance (conveyed more elegantly...

... social life in general. The book testifies to the important role that the Dalit critique has played—and continues to play—in the renewal of the idea of research. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Bronkhorst Johannes . Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism . Leiden : Brill...

... Roots of Dalit Literature drama forms to popularize their message of revolt against the caste system and exploitation. In doing so, they were 'In the Brahman's house, writing; in the Kunbi's house, very likely drawing...

... philological school, they obey an almost irresistible analysis of Dumont’s work, have long expressed their preference regard the problem from this traditional to disagreement with a viewpoint on Indian culture that aspect The brahmanic theory...

...-Brahman tradition of cultural dissent and For what do you tell these stories of the past? their own expanding community resources to create a number of local protest and self-development organiza- tions. It was this setting that provided impetus and sup- Gandhi’s superstitiousness...

... of priests, warriors, traders and menials dilemmas confronting the middle class women’s which included the agriculturalists (Brahman, Kshat- movement. riya, Vaishya and Shudra). There is a similarity here to The Pre-Colonial Legacy of Hindustan other systems...

..., and among their traditional duties was the hauling of catde carcasses from the village. The ending of the poem is ironic: 'Shout victory to the revolution' is a quotation from a well-known Brahman poet; but while the elite call for revolution, the Untouchables who do revolt against tradition are burned...

... of the air we breathe of the Brahmanical ideological premise that every caste has its own distinctive, hierarchically ranked place in the world, and that the places inhabited by subordinate castes should not only be set apart but should look, smell, and feel differently from those of the rest of society...

..., founded in 1800, were Brahman pundits who The semi-tatsama are Sanskrit words which have been earlier ran lois (schools for Sanskritic education) in rural naturalized in Bengali and in the process, phonetically modi...

... is not alone in this field. Dina- by 44 percent, and during this period India over- malar, to take another important example, was took China to become the leader in paid-­for daily started in 1951 by a Brahman industrialist named circulation, with 110 million copies sold every day.15 T. V...

... self-­contradictory directions. Ganesha, half-­human and half-­animal from the start, Dwyer writes, epitomizes this multivalence by being “public and private, Brahmanical and belonging to other castes; ascetic and fond of sweets; wise and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa...

... Methodist Missionaries on the Trichy-Tanjore Diocese to the Harijan Communities of the Mass Movement Area, 1820–1947 . Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. Matthew , C. , and M. Thomas 1967 . The Indian Churches of Saint Thomas . Delhi: I.P.S.C.K. Oddie , G. 1979 . “Brahmans and Christian...

... presidencies. On an average, about 500 to 800 widows modern histories of immolations. were burned alive in Bengal presidency alone, from all castes, especially 3. See Yule and Burnell, Hobson-­Jobson, 8 7 8   –   ​8 2 . brahmans and upwardly mobile Shudras...

... of a “resurgence of that extends back before this boundary for at least Brahmanism,” after a long period of dominance a millennium, as manifested chiefly in the Vedic by anti-­Brahmanical, specifically Buddhist, rulers scriptures and the various bodies of technical lit...

.... or intention to understand, in some cases to control, manipulate, even to incorporate, what evenis to control,to orin some incorporate, manipulate, intentioncases to understand, elite. Brahman by the tool a mere nationalistic or as devoid of reality construction ist entity. haveSome scholars...