Caste, knowledge, and power : (Record no. 664065)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781009273121
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.5122 SUN (TB)
Edition number 23/eng/20220822
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number HIS017000
Source of Number bisacsh
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Sunandan, K. N.,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Caste, knowledge, and power :
Sub Title ways of knowing in twentieth-century Malabar /
Statement of responsibility, etc K.N. Sunandan.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 229p.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Acknowledgements -- Notes on transliteration -- Introduction: Caste, knowledge, and power -- An Ashari world of knowing -- An Ashari world of ignoring -- A Nampoothiri world of Acharam -- Nampoothiris and the order of knowledge -- Asharis and the order of knowledge -- Postscript: Towards an artisanal way of practice of knowing -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Caste, Knowledge, and Power explores the emergence of knowledge as a measure of human in the colonial and casteist contexts in twentieth-century Malabar, India. It undertakes a comparative study of two caste communities in Malabar-Asharis (carpenter caste) and Nampoothiris (Brahmins) for their varied interactions with and intervention in the emerging colonial forms of knowledge production. The author argues that the caste location determined not only the presence or absence in the system of knowledge production, but also the cognitive process of knowing and hence the very idea of what is considered as knowledge. In other words, it engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production, which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial-brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual practices) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge. In short, the book investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth-century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuation of these oppressive practices. It also diverges from the tradition of considering colonial power as the determining force and actions of the communities as response to this power. The author situates the domination and subordination as interaction and indicates that, in India, colonial modernity emerged as colonial-brahmanical modernity. The periodization-twentieth century-is also indicative of moving away from the dominant classification of colonial and postcolonial, and hence posits the argument that postcolonial practices of knowledge are a continuation of the colonial-brahmanical practices formed in the first half of the twentieth century"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Caste
Geographic subdivision India
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Learning and scholarship
Geographic subdivision India
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Power (Social sciences)
Geographic subdivision India
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term HISTORY / Asia / South / General
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        Institute of English Institute of English 19/11/2022 305.5122 SUN (TB) ENG16009 19/11/2022 Textbooks