Vimala Devi's Bhatcars and the Mundcars: Laborers, Landlords, and Culture in Goa

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Kritika Kultura Pub Date : 2022-04-24 DOI:10.13185/kk2022.003821
D. Na
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The master-servant, or broadly bhatcar - mundcar , relations are fundamental to Goan culture, history, and society. While the interaction of these two broad socio-economic groups, those who labor and those who do not, was and is fundamental to Goan politics, scholars have not yet evolved a methodological framework for understanding these relations. This absence, the paper claims, is a particularly serious problem for Goa studies, and one that can be tackled by thinking closely about categories such as bhatcar and mundcar . The terms bhatcar and mundcar are defined capaciously, making room for a range of servitudes and labor regimes as well as different ways in which the masters live as bhatcar s and the servants as mundcar s. This paper uses Vimala Devi’s Monsoon to formulate broad generalizations about the master-servant relations in Goa. The paper engages with the historiography of labor and caste in South Asia as well as Goan historiography to deepen the understanding of labor relations and culture in Goan society. . His research interests include the history of commodities and imperial and non-imperial polities in early modern South Asia. Menezes is interested in the role of South Asians—kings, merchants, and laborers—in the making of a global world (or ‘globalizing world’) since the 1500s. His research straddles the European and non-European spheres of South Asia’s globalizing history and tries to view these seemingly different components as forming a part of the same political economy. Occasionally, he writes about Goan literature written in Portuguese, Konkani, and Marathi.
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维玛拉·德维的《巴特卡人和蒙德卡人:果阿的劳工、地主和文化》
主人与仆人的关系,或者更广泛地说,是果阿文化、历史和社会的基础。尽管这两个广泛的社会经济群体(劳动者和不劳动者)之间的相互作用过去和现在都是果阿政治的基础,但学者们还没有形成一个理解这些关系的方法论框架。这篇论文声称,这种缺失对果阿邦的研究来说是一个特别严重的问题,而这个问题可以通过仔细思考诸如bhatcar和mundcar之类的类别来解决。bhatcar和mundcar这两个术语的定义很宽泛,为一系列奴役和劳动制度以及主人作为bhatcar和仆人作为mundcar生活的不同方式提供了空间。本文使用Vimala Devi的季风来制定关于果阿邦主仆关系的广泛概括。本文结合南亚劳工和种姓史学以及果阿邦史学,加深对果阿邦社会劳工关系和文化的理解。他的研究兴趣包括商品史以及近代早期南亚的帝国和非帝国政治。梅内塞斯对南亚人——国王、商人和劳工——自16世纪以来在全球世界(或“全球化世界”)的形成中所扮演的角色很感兴趣。他的研究跨越了南亚全球化历史的欧洲和非欧洲领域,并试图将这些看似不同的组成部分视为构成同一政治经济的一部分。偶尔,他写一些用葡萄牙语、康卡尼语和马拉地语写的果阿文学。
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期刊介绍: KK is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic journal of language and literary/cultural studies. It is published twice a year (February and August) by the Department of English, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It is acknowledged by a host of Asian and Asian American Studies libraries and scholars network, and indexed in MLA, EBSCO, and Scopus.
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