Debrahmanising History: Dominance and Resistance in Indian Society
Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: Preface Introduction Historical Roots of Brahmanic Dominance & Shramanic Resistance: Violence & Domination Underpin Vedic Ideology Buddhist India: Against Caste & Brahmanism: Buddha's Humanitarian Synthesis of Mind & Matter Medieval Mukti Movements of the Subaltern Saint-Poets: Social Resistance in Religious Idiom Colonialism & Birth of Vedic-Brahmanic Nationalism: Orientalism, Aryan Race Theory & Neo-Hinduism Phules Struggle Against Brahmanical Colonialism: Brahman Power & Oppression of the Time Emergence of Anti-Caste Radicalism Guru, Iyothee, Periyar, Acchutanand: Different Strategies, One Goal: Dynamics & Dimension of Egalitarian Emergence Epilogue: Institutionalised Discrimination from the Past to the 'Democratic' Present Index.
Author: Braj Ranjan Mani
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W600851682