Everyday lives, everyday histories : beyond the kings and Brahmanas of 'ancient' India

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Everyday lives, everyday histories : beyond the kings and Brahmanas of 'ancient' India

Uma Chakravarti

Tulika Books, 2007

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Beyond the kings and Brahmanas of "ancient" India

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Description based on: 2012 printing

First published in hardback 2006

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index

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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 for 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 TV 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, 'a'grihinis, bhaktins, and gahapatis provide an understanding of ancient India away from the cliched invocations of ideal kings, brahmanas, and pativratas.

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