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Turbulent Transformations: Non-Brahmin Srivaisnavas on Religion, Caste and Politics in Tamil Nadu

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Item Code: HBB094
Author: Katherine K. Young
Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 9788194925880
Pages: 314 (B/W Illustrations)
Cover: PAPERBACK
Other Details 8.5x5.5 inch
Weight 460 gm
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About The Book

This book studies the interface of religious, social and political identities in modern Tamil Nadu. Based on interviews with non-Brahmin Srivaisnavas of many caste clusters, it analyses their oral histories of discrimination, negotiation of lived realities and hopes for the future. The interviews are contextualised with reference to the history of Srivaisnavism, an historically important Hindu sect in the region, the religion's theology of caste inclusiveness, and history of Brahmin leadership exclusiveness, In addition, it addresses colonial changes, Telugu connections, the non-Brahmin movement, Dalit mobilisation, post-Independence caste hierarchies, government policies, party politics, Brahmin reactions, court cases, and inter-religious competition.

Turbulent Transformations breaks new ground by recovering from the dustbin of history radical non-Brahmin leaders in the colonial period. It probes the Srivaisnava connections of prominent political figures such as Periyar and Jayalalithaa. And it explores the relation of the temples, the state, and the Supreme Court over questions such as "who is allowed to be a priest'.

Besides highlighting the variety of perspectives that underlie the general labels non-Brahmin and Brahmin, this book provides insights into new configurations and faultlines of democracy, caste and modern lived Hinduism. It fills the lacunae created by Brahmin narratives, scholarly studies focused on Tamil Saivism or Christianity, and political and sociological analyses removed from the dynamic pulse of religion in interaction with the non-Brahmin movement over the past century.

Turbulent Transformations will be of interest to students and scholars of Hinduism, the anthropology of religion, sociology, colonial and post-colonial studies, and those interested in the relation of politics and religion.

About The Author

Katherine Young has held the James McGill Chair in the Asian Studies Department of the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Now Professor Emeritus, she lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria.

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