Being Brahmin, Being Modern: Exploring the Lives of Caste Today

by Ramesh Bairy T.S. and Ramesh Bairy

Book Overview

There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the 'idea' of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today's Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry - the persona of the 'Brahmin' embodied in the agency...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138662682
• ISBN13: 9781138662681
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"