Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste, Family and the State in Western India, 1600–1900 - Couverture rigide

O'Hanlon, Rosalind

 
9798855803228: Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste, Family and the State in Western India, 1600–1900
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ISBN 13 : 9798855803228
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2025

Synopsis

Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's modern caste system. In Lineages of Brahman Power, Rosalind O'Hanlon focuses on their rise to power between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which some Brahman intellectuals sought to defend the hierarchies of caste against the social changes of the early modern era while others looked for compromise. Drawing on Marathi vernacular sources, O'Hanlon also examines the household, family, and lineage as key sites for Brahman accumulation of skills and cultural capital. This approach also reveals Brahman identity itself as contested, as Brahman subcastes competed with each other not only for service positions and state patronage but also to define who could actually be considered a Brahman, and of what kind. This focus on Brahman social history is novel, in that most historians focus on Brahman power as emerging out of their religious prestige and dominance of intellectual and literary cultures. The emphasis on Brahman identity itself as complex and internally contested also helps to avoid essentializing Brahman power as always and everywhere the same.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rosalind O'Hanlon is Professor Emeritus of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford. Her previous books include Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives, coedited with David Washbrook, and At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and Intellectual History of India.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798855803228
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
452
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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