Black coffee in a coconut shell : caste as lived experience
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage 2018Description: xix, 229pISBN: 9789352804979 Subject(s): Caste | Caste-based discrimination India-TamilnaduDDC classification: 305.51220954 Summary: Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one’s existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent. The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one’s life, there is still death to deal with.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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305.5122 GAN/C Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds:Postcolonial Perspectives | 305.5122 NIS/G Gandhi against castle | 305.51220954 BAY/C Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age | 305.51220954 BLA Black coffee in a coconut shell : caste as lived experience | 305.51220954 CAS Caste in modern India : | 305.51220954 CAS Caste in modern India | 305.51220954 CAS Caste-based exclusion |
Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one’s existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent.
The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one’s life, there is still death to deal with.
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