Literature, Caste and Society: The Masks and Veils
Stephen, S. Jeyaseela (Ed.)
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Book ID : 29202
ISBN-10 : 81-7835-448-9 / 8178354489
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7835-448-4 / 9788178354484
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition :
Language : English
427p., Tables, Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Part- I Opening a New Road: Indian Literature and Society; 1. Medieval Telugu Literature and the Untouchables in Society; 2. Caste System in North Indian Medieval Society; A Study Chiefly Based on Hindi Literature; 3. Windows and Fallen Women: Gleanings from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengali Literature; 4. Emergence of Seditious Literature and its Social Impact in the French Colony of Pondicherry (1908-1915); Part- II From Europe to India: The Spread of Ideas and Knowledge in Language, Linguistics and Literature; 5. Portuguese in Bengal: A Literary and Linguistic Interaction; 6. European Impact and Paradigm Shift in Tamil development; 7. Advent of the Europeans and Emergence of New Literary genres in Tamil; Part- III Construction, Dimension and Manifestation: Society in India; 8. Tamil Society and the Military in the Age of the Medieval Cholas; 9. Civil Society Under the Sultanate-Mughal Rule: The Role of the Sufis; 10. Caste and Dynamics of Society in Andhra (1600-1750); 11. The Social World of the Weaver in the Northern Coromandel (1775-1817); 12. Society and the Identity of the Santals: The 'Other' Way of Interpreting the Subalterns; Part- IV European Encounter and Social Interactions in India; 13. Crime, Social Ramifications and the Portuguese Diaspora on the Coromandel Coast (1538-1695); 14. French Missionaries, Tamil Catholics and Social Changes in Pondicherry (1674-1793); 15. Religious Conversion in Pondicherry and the French (1703-1878); 16. Social Stratification and Change in Orrisa Under the English East India Company and the Crown; Part- V Toward Society and Nation-State: Image and Perception; 17. The Inner Dynamism of a Nation State: An Indian Paradigm; 18. Social and National Consciousness of Rabindranath Tagore and the Indian National Movement (1905-1930); 19. Socio-Cultural reforms in Bengal and the Indian National Movement: A Case study of Prabatak Samgha in nation Building (1915-1947).
DESCRIPTION
This groundbreaking collection presents a significantly different portrait of the medieval and modern Indian society, literature, and the nation-state. Reporting on eighteen studies in five distinct sections spanning many centuries of Indian social history it has brought fresh insights into the emergence of innumerable sub-castes owing to various factors such as political, economic, inter-religious and inter-cultural. This remarkable set of reconstructions presents the reader with familiar as well as unfamiliar groups and areas within the subcontinent offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and of modern historical writing. What unites them here is an overarching thesis on social formation and transformation by establishing links chronologically and thematically. It is argued that although modernizing forces entered the caste system with the advent of the European missionaries and trading companies it did not radically alter the system but the changes brought about in the Indian society remained complex. There has been conflict in the society right from the time of Buddha challenging the Vedic and Shastric traditions. We find non-Brahmin tradition as part of broader Hinduism. In British India various reformers launched social reform movements to challenge the hegemony of the upper castes and to bring about change and transformation towards the egalitarian order. The book looks into the issues of identity, power, conversion and gender inequality.
