The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India
In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in...
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
[2016]
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In: | Year: 2016 |
Series/Journal: | De Gruyter eBook-Paket Theologie, Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maharashtra
/ Marathi
/ Religion
/ Literature
/ Social change
/ History 1200-1400
B Yādava, Family / Marathi / Religious literature / Completion / Sanskrit language / Socio-cultural change B Jñānadeva 1275-1290, Jñānadevī / Maharashtra / Religious change / Social change B Mahānubhāva / Maharashtra / Religious change / Social change |
Further subjects: | B
Marathi language
Social aspects
History
B Marathi language B Marathi literature History and criticism B Marathi literature |
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Summary: | In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in the idiom of everyday life. The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the "idian world in sociopolitical terms.The Quotidian Revolution examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature: the Lilacaritra (1278) and the Jñanesvari (1290). Novetzke revisits the influence of Chakradhar (c. 1194), the founder of the Mahanubhav religion, and Jnandev (c. 1271), who became a major figure of the Varkari religion, to observe how these avant-garde and worldly elites pursued a radical intervention into the social questions and ethics of the age. Drawing on political anthropology and contemporary theories of social justice, religion, and the public sphere, The Quotidian Revolution explores the specific circumstances of this new discourse oriented around everyday life and its lasting legacy: widening the space of public debate in a way that presages key aspects of Indian modernity and democracy. |
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ISBN: | 0231542410 |