The Good Parsi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Good Parsi write by Tanya M. Luhrmann. This book was released on 1996. The Good Parsi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered because of British rule: the Parsis. The Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and were rewarded with high-level financial, mercantile, and bureaucratic posts. Indian independence, however, ushered in their decline.
Caste in Contemporary India
Caste in Contemporary India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caste in Contemporary India write by SurinderS. Jodhka. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Caste in Contemporary India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. Presenting rich empirical findings across north India, it presents an original perspective on the reasons for the persistence of caste in India today.
Tamil Brahmans
Tamil Brahmans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tamil Brahmans write by C. J. Fuller. This book was released on 2014-10-03. Tamil Brahmans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."
Shorelines
Shorelines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shorelines write by Ajantha Subramanian. This book was released on 2009-04-28. Shorelines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and reject the church's intermediary role. In Shorelines, Ajantha Subramanian argues that their struggle requires a rethinking of Indian democracy, citizenship, and environmentalism. Rather than see these fishers as non-moderns inhabiting a bounded cultural world, or as moderns wholly captured by the logic of state power, she illustrates how they constitute themselves as political subjects. In particular, she shows how they produced new geographies—of regionalism, common property, alternative technology, and fisher citizenship—that underpinned claims to rights, thus using space as an instrument of justice. Moving beyond the romantic myth of self-contained, natural-resource dependent populations, this work reveals the charged political maneuvers that bound subalterns and sovereigns in South Asia. In rich historical and ethnographic detail, Shorelines illuminates postcolonial rights politics as the product of particular histories of caste, religion, and development, allowing us to see how democracy is always "provincial."
The New Frontier
The New Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Frontier write by Marilyn Fernandez. This book was released on 2018. The New Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses pertinent issues around the role and status of caste in the new private occupational IT sector that boasts of merit as the ultimate equalizer. The author finds that in spite of the narrative of equality and justice, caste and gender status continues to influence access to IT education and in the new IT occupations in India.
