The Quotidian Revolution

Release on 2016-10-18 | by Christian Lee Novetzke

The Quotidian Revolution examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature: the ...

Author: Christian Lee Novetzke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231542418
Category: Religion
Page: 432
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The Quotidian Revolution

In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in the idiom of everyday life. The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the quotidian world in sociopolitical terms. The Quotidian Revolution examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature: the Lilacaritra (1278) and the Jñanesvari (1290). Novetzke revisits the influence of Chakradhar (c. 1194), the founder of the Mahanubhav religion, and Jnandev (c. 1271), who became a major figure of the Varkari religion, to observe how these avant-garde and worldly elites pursued a radical intervention into the social questions and ethics of the age. Drawing on political anthropology and contemporary theories of social justice, religion, and the public sphere, The Quotidian Revolution explores the specific circumstances of this new discourse oriented around everyday life and its lasting legacy: widening the space of public debate in a way that presages key aspects of Indian modernity and democracy.

Language: en
Pages: 432

The Quotidian Revolution

Authors: Christian Lee Novetzke

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-18 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

Language: en
Pages: 288

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Authors: Brian A. Hatcher

Categories: Brahma-samaj

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages:

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Authors: Johann Jacob HAINLIN

Categories: Brahma-samaj

Type: BOOK - Published: 1729 - Publisher:

Books about Synopsis mathematica universalis: or, A brief system of the mathematics, for young students ... By [or rather, translated by] Venterus Mandey

Language: en
Pages: 215

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Authors: Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

Categories: Social Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-27 - Publisher: University of California Press

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi

Language: en
Pages: 336

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Authors: GJV Prasad

Categories: Literary Criticism

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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