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The Quotidian Revolution : Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India / Christian Lee Novetzke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (432 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231175807
  • 9780231542418
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.4609 23
LOC classification:
  • PK2405 .N68 2016
  • PK2405 .N68 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. The Shape of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Argument of the Book -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE. The Yadava Century -- CHAPTER TWO. Traces of a Medieval Public -- CHAPTER THREE. The Biography of Literary Vernacularization -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Vernacular Moment -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Mahanubhav Ethic -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER SIX. A Vernacular Manifesto -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sonic Equality -- Conclusion. The Vernacular Millennium and the Quotidian Revolution -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface. The Shape of the Book -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Argument of the Book -- PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE. The Yadava Century -- CHAPTER TWO. Traces of a Medieval Public -- CHAPTER THREE. The Biography of Literary Vernacularization -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Vernacular Moment -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Mahanubhav Ethic -- PART THREE -- CHAPTER SIX. A Vernacular Manifesto -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Sonic Equality -- Conclusion. The Vernacular Millennium and the Quotidian Revolution -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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