Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals (Record no. 61863)
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| fixed length control field | 01330nam a22002057a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9788189059453 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.51220954 |
| Item number | OMV/S |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Omvedt,Gail |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Navayana |
| Year of publication | 2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 304p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The bhakti radical Ravidas (C 1450–1520), calling himself a ‘Tanner now set free’, was the first to envision an Indian utopia in his song “Begumpura”—a modern casteless, classless, tax-free city without sorrow. This was in contrast to the dystopia of the brahmanic Kaliyuga. Rejecting Orientalist, nationalist and Hindu TV a impulses to ‘reinvent’ India, gail Omvedt threads together the world views of subaltern visionaries spanning five centuries—Chokhamela, Janabai, Kabir, Ravidas, Tukaram, the Kartabhajas, Phule, Iyothee Thass, Pandita Ramabai, Periyar, and Ambedkar. These are contrasted with Gandhi’s village utopia of Ram Rajan, Nehru’s hindutva-laced brahmanic socialism and Savarkar’s territorialist Hindu Rashtra. Reason and ecstasy— dnyan and bhakti—pave the road that leads to the promised land. |
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| Topical Term | India |
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| Topical Term | Hindutva |
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| Topical Term | Bhakti |
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| Topical Term | Caste |
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| Topical Term | casteless soceity |
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| Topical Term | Social system-India |
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| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 07/09/2021 | 295.00 | 305.51220954 OMV/S | 54143 | BK |