Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/2455328x241233361
Mohan Dharavath, Neetha Rani
This article explores the ways in which Kocharethi: The Araya Woman by Adivasi writer Narayan is a significant work in Adivasi literature in the way that it opens the life-world of a community, family and individuals. Kocharethi is a story about the intimate ways in which the Malayaraya Adivasi community of Kerala relates to their land and its ownership. Kocharethi is about their exploitation, impoverishment, displacement and erasure and their interaction and negotiation with modernity. It is not an overtly political piece of writing in the sense that it does not incorporate political consciousness, language, form and content, but by centring the Adivasi life-world, it attains a political feat within a literary industry that focuses primarily on the upper-caste Hindus. In a way, Kocharethi is an assertion of the autonomous identity of the Adivasi communities in general and the Malayaraya people in particular. This article therefore engages with complex insights into the relationship between the Adivasi identity, Christianity and Hinduism and how these religions have dehumanized and accepted the people within the fold only on their own terms. The article looks into the important arguments about affirmative action, such as the policy of reservation for Dalits and Adivasis, and one of the transformations that the Malayaraya community underwent, that of conversion to Christianity. When it comes to the women of this community, it is even more complex. Hence, this article is also an attempt to reread the text by Kerala’s first Adivasi novelist, Narayan, from a feminist perspective without undermining the unique and significant position that it holds in Adivasi literature. It further looks at the issues of Adivasi women, specifically the Malayaraya women, and also analyses the patriarchal structure that is depicted in the text. The transition that the community makes due to modernity is placed subsequently.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-17DOI: 10.1177/2455328x241247646
Shivani Waldekar
Scott R. Stroud, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: An Intellectual Biography of B. R. Ambedkar. Haryana: HarperCollins Publishers India, 2023, 302 pp., ₹599 (Paperback). ISBN: 9789356991101.
Scott R. Stroud, The Evolution of Pragmatism in India：B. R. Ambedkar 的思想传记》。哈里亚纳邦：HarperCollins Publishers India, 2023, 302 pp.ISBN：9789356991101。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-11DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231198730
Aarthimeena S, M. Subbulakshmi
People in the marginalized category struggle to establish a standard subsistence and maintain a quality of living. The relentless waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns were met by their vulnerabilities and insecurities. Dalit women from the most underprivileged groups often have less access to essential services such as healthcare and sanitation and are exposed to health hazards and diseases. The marginalization experienced by Dalit women during the pandemic has serious implications for their well-being and livelihoods. However, this is influenced by societal and political pressures from multiple dimensions and Dalit women face this because of their caste. Dalits, who have long suffered from social exclusion due to untouchability practices, suffer from a second form of social isolation and alienation due to COVID-19, making them the victims of double exclusion. Dalit women experienced a loss of means of subsistence and more sexual and physical harassment during the COVID-19 outbreak. In these challenging times, it is critical to observe and examine both the surface-level concerns and profound problems that Dalit women experience. By doing this, we can seek to achieve sustainable solutions that prioritize the well-being of minority communities.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231223050
Sreehari K R, E. Kasi
This article focuses on an interpretive approach to interpret the lyrics of Irulas of Attapadi, Kerala, India. India is a country that has a rich diversity of culture and folklore. Folklore occupied a pivotal place in the life and culture of people in India. Most of the tribal communities have their folk forms and songs. The knowledge and life experiences related to nature, myth, history, morals, rituals, taboos, etc, are conveyed through these songs. An attempt is made in the article to interpret the lyrics of Irula songs which they believe that the soul of the song lies in the lyrics. Further, an ethnographic attempt is made in the article to explore and analyse the lyrics of folk songs of the Irulas, how Irula maintained the bond with nature, through folklore tradition and to enquire what the contemporary existence, continuity and change of this folkloric tradition on the life and lore of Irula tribe of Kerala by using discourse analysis. For this article, we used both primary and secondary sources of data.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231207501
Sargam Sanil
In Indian society, caste and gender are not mutually exclusive constructs. They coexist and are inseparable. India’s meteoric rise to becoming a nation least safe for women as Thomas Reuters reported in 2018, has its origins not only in patriarchy but also in casteism. This is most clearly visible with reference to the phenomenon of inter-caste marriages in India and the resulting perpetuation of atrocities on the inter-caste couple, and women have been the worst sufferers of this, since it is women’s bodies that has, since time immemorial, been the site of violence and discrimination. This can be corroborated by the fact that while Hindu scriptures has institutionalized inter-caste marriages, to a limited extent, by allowing anuloma marriages, it, in no way, allows for a pratiloma union. The anuloma marriages permit an alliance between a lower caste woman and a higher caste man, while the pratiloma form of marriage is an alliance between a higher caste woman and a lower caste man. The former is referred to as hypergamy and the latter as hypogamy. Thus, while caste discrimination and violence against women as distinct forms of oppression has garnered much attention, little sociological and anthropological research in the area of inter-caste marriage and its implications on women within the framework of religio-cultural, anthropological and sociological discourse, has come to the surface. The article focuses on fundamental prerequisites for a wholehearted acceptance of intermarriage.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231221866
Sanjoy Jana
Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Editor), Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio, London, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp., ₹995. ISBN: 978-0-367-36097-9 (Paperback)
Sonya Surabhi Gupta (Editor), Subalternities in India and Latin America：Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio, London, Routledge, 2022, 228 pp.ISBN: 978-0-367-36097-9 (Paperback)
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231221869
Hritic Gautam
In their influential paper for the National Council of Applied Economic Research, Chatterjee and Kapur raised some fundamental questions about Indian agriculture and why it has not transformed with economic development. They identify six important ‘puzzles’ in Indian agriculture, one of which is the political economy puzzle. This puzzle refers to the fact that farmers have not been able to leverage their power of land and numbers to economically benefit themselves. The essay utilizes the political settlements framework to understand the underlying causes of this puzzle. Such analysis is important as it recognizes the historical and sociocultural traditions to explain the economic phenomenon of the backwardness of Indian agriculture.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-11DOI: 10.1177/2455328x231220160
Sreeparna Das
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