Search Results for Brahminical ignorance

..., this self-critique grounded in historical and material relations of caste seeks a feminist readership invested in public accountability and denaturalizing Brahminical merit in academia. castelessness transnational feminism Brahminical supremacy Brahminical ignorance denaturalizing merit We...

...-mother led to the Brahmin customs of pre-pubertal marriage for girls, followed by immediate post-pubertal consummation of marriage, early and perpetual motherhood, and the often inhumane treatment of widows considered completely superfluous in this social scheme. In Maharashtra (the Marathi-speaking...

... dispossession of Adivasi worlds by colonial and Brahminical forces. In my formative years in India, I did not need to contend with this reality. But now, as I live and work in Canada where there is some visibility and discourse about ongoing Indigenous dispossession, Hembrom’s words are a necessary reminder...

... scientist in India. He was born in November 1888 into an upper caste Brahmin family in the southern state of Tamilnadu, and by the age of nineteen he had obtained a master's DISPERSED RADIANCE 99 degree in physics and had published his first independent paper in the PhilosophicalMagazine.Opportunities...

... her father’s noble birth, a birth connected to the rape of his mother. This rape, Sanjita explains, was perpetrated by a man claiming to be a Brahmin, “Parashar and a saint” (155). Cast this way, the story celebrates the rapist, who is presented as high ranking and important, and erases the violence...