Description: Tamil Brahmans : The Making of a Middle-Class Caste, Paperback by Fuller, C. J.; Narasimhan, Haripriya, ISBN 022615274X, ISBN-13 9780226152745, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors’ ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans’ privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans’ class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which – as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows – is highly unusual in contemporary India.
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Book Title: Tamil Brahmans : The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Tamil Brahmans : the Making of a Middle-Class Caste
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 14.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Haripriya Narasimhan, C. J. Fuller
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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