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Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of 'Ancient' India

 
Uma Chakravarti (Author)
Synopsis

This volume of essays moves the historiography of ancient India in the service of a history of the present. The cultural onslaught of a brahmanical saffron culture within popular discourse, and the fight against entrenched class and caste interests led by women, dalits and other marginalized groups, frame this battle for ancient India. Through an in-depth analysis of myths and original sources, the author provides novel grounds fro contesting the foundations of such charged concepts as nation civilization and womanly honour. Reading against the grain of canonical sources, she presents a distinctive reading of lesser known Buddhist Pali texts, the Jataka stories, and even contemporary texts like the television serials Chanakya and Ramayana, to demonstrate the stratifications in early Indian society. the book brings to light several crucial concepts and categories that make possible a sensitive delineation of social alienation, class antagonism and gendered violence in ancient Indian society. The everyday histories of dasas, karmakaras, grihinis, bhaktins and gahapatis provide an understanding of ancient India away from the clich?d invocations of ideal kings, brahmanas and pativratas.

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About the author

Uma Chakravarti

Dr. Uma Chakravarti teaches History at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She held a research fellowship at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi between 1990-94. She has published several articles in the field of social history particularly on caste, labour and gender. Among her forthcoming publications is a book titled Gender, Class and Nation: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai.

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Bibliographic information

Title Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories: Beyond the Kings and Brahmanas of 'Ancient' India
Format Softcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Tulika Books
Language: English
isbn 8189487213, 9788189487959
length xxx+328p., Notes; Glossary; Index; 25cm.