Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Navayana 2011Description: 304pISBN: 9788189059453Subject(s): India | Hindutva | Bhakti | Caste | casteless soceity | Social system-IndiaDDC classification: 305.51220954 Summary: 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.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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305.51220954 GHU/C Caste and race in India | 305.51220954 HER/T Taking sides : reservation quotas and minority rights in India | 305.51220954 OMV/S Seeking Begumpura: the social vision of anticaste intellectuals | 305.51220954 OMV/S Seeking Begumpura : the social vision of anticaste intellectuals | 305.51220954 PRO The problem of caste | 305.51220954 PRO The problem of caste: | 305.51220954 SAM/T Towards a casteless community |
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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