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Tamil Buddhism and brahminism in Modern India
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Deep Resistance against Caste is a study of Tamil Buddhism against brahminism/casteism. Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), the founder of anticaste Buddhism in modern India, mobilized the reading public for casteless, anticaste, antirace, and gender-sensitive vernacular societies of Indians. Given his unprecedented philosophical and cultural impacts on the colonial and postcolonial periods, this monograph, by engaging with the archives of the caste-oppressed, analyses the intellectual history of Thass through the interdisciplinary methods of Critical Caste Studies. In addition, it shows hitherto unexamined gender, political, economic, environmental, and transnational aspects of the first Buddhist movement in modern India. It asks: why did the Indigenous Indians resist the brahmin frame? How did the caste-oppressed Tamils/Indians reinforce the perceptions, institutions, and practices that are unconnected with and antithetical to the brahmincentric view of caste? It argues that Tamil Buddhists inaugurated casteless modernity with their foundations of anticaste consciousness in India and beyond.
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Abstract
Deep Resistance against Caste is a study of Tamil Buddhism against brahminism/casteism.
Pandit Iyothee Thass (1845–1914), the founder of anticaste Buddhism in modern India, mobilized the reading public for casteless, anticaste, antirace, and gender-sensitive vernacular societies of Indians.
Given his unprecedented philosophical and cultural impacts on the colonial and postcolonial periods, this monograph, by engaging with the archives of the caste-oppressed, analyses the intellectual history of Thass through the interdisciplinary methods of Critical Caste Studies.
In addition, it shows hitherto unexamined gender, political, economic, environmental, and transnational aspects of the first Buddhist movement in modern India.
It asks: why did the Indigenous Indians resist the brahmin frame? How did the caste-oppressed Tamils/Indians reinforce the perceptions, institutions, and practices that are unconnected with and antithetical to the brahmincentric view of caste? It argues that Tamil Buddhists inaugurated casteless modernity with their foundations of anticaste consciousness in India and beyond.
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