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ISBN10: 8194925886, ISBN13: 9788194925880, [publisher: Orient Blackswan] Softcover Contents: 1. Introduction: setting the stage. 2. Traces of non-brahmin Srivaisnava leaders. 3. Stories from Chennai and beyond. 4. Oral histories from Puducherry and beyond. 5. Tales from Srirangam, Tanjavur and beyond. 6. Srivaisnava brahmin voices. 7. Temple politics and the courts. 8. Thinking about the big picture. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. This book studies the interlinking of religious, social and political identities in modern Tamil Nadu. Through interviews with non-Brahmin Srivaisnavas of many castes, but especially belonging to the lower-caste groups, it analyses their histories of discrimination, their negotiation of lived realities, and hopes for the future. The interviews all refer to the history of Srivaisnavism, an historically important Hindu sect in the region, the religion s theology of caste inclusiveness, and history of Brahmin leadership exclusiveness. In addition, the author also addresses colonial changes, Telugu connections, the non-Brahmin movement, Dalit mobilisation, post-Independence caste hierarchies, government policies, party politics, Brahmin reactions, court cases, and inter-religious competition. Turbulent Transformations breaks new ground by highlighting radical non-Brahmin leaders in the colonial period. It probes the Srivaisnava connections of prominent political figures such as Periyar and Jayalalithaa. And it explores the relation of the temp ...
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