"What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one? Over the years, intellectuals and dogmatists have offered plenty of answers to the first question, but the latter presents a cultural puzzle, since normative Brahminical ideology deems it impossible for an…
"Disputed Mission casts a fresh glance at the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India." "Confronted with social and cultural idioms which appeared to them as both strange and familiar, Jesuit missionaries embarked on a titanic, utop…
In lucid and accessible prose, this book presents karma in its historical, cultural, and religious context. Initially, karma manifested itself in a number of religious movements-most notably Jainism and Buddhism-and was subsequently absorbed into Brahmanism in spite of oppositio…
On non-Brahmin-Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu, India.
On non-Brahmin-Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu, India
On non-Brahmin-Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu, India
