Overview
Uses different methods and approaches across chapters to foreground lived experiences and experiential narrations
Explores the Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences
Highlights the affective, emotive and sensory aspects and significance of these in case relationships
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Psycho-social Violence
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Exclusion in Education
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Banal Casteism: Everyday Assertions of Superiority
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Economies of Caste: Employment and Environment
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About this book
This edited volume brings together a range of scholars to reflect on the varied ways in which caste is manifested and experienced in social life. Each chapter draws on different methods and approaches but all consider lived experiences and experiential narrations. Considering Guru and Sarukkai’s path-breaking work on ‘Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social’ (2019), this volume applies the insights of the theories to multiple settings, issues and communities. Unique to this volume, Brahmin and other dominant castes' experiences are considered, rather than simply focusing on the lives of oppressed castes (Dalits). Analysis of cross-caste friendships or romances and marriages, furthermore, brings out the intimate and ingrained aspects of caste. Taken together, therefore, the contributions in this volume offer rich insights into caste and its consciousness within the framework of everyday experiences.
Reviews
“Bhoi and Gorringe bring together an excellent set of essays that explore caste and its centrality in everyday life in India. This book is a valuable contribution to critical caste studies.” (Suryakant Waghmore, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dhaneswar Bhoi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He was the Associate Editor of Journal of the World Universities Forum, USA, and is the author of several journal articles and chapters in edited volumes including ‘Economic Growth, Development of Scheduled Castes and their Education: Line Drawn from Neoliberal Era in India’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE 2022).
Hugo Gorringe is Senior Lecturer & former Co-director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is Editorial Board Member for Contemporary Voice of Dalit (SAGE), Co-editor of Civility in Crisis, Democracy, Equality, and the Majoritarian Challenge in India, Routledge, and author of Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste and Political Power in South India (OUP, 2017).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caste in Everyday Life
Book Subtitle: Experience and Affect in Indian Society
Editors: Dhaneswar Bhoi, Hugo Gorringe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30655-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30654-9Published: 15 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30657-0Due: 29 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30655-6Published: 14 September 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 340
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Culture, Demography, Anthropology, Comparative Religion, Asian Culture