Shared devotion, shared food : equality and the bhakti-caste question in Western India / Jon Keune.
'Shared Devotion, Shared Food' explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Jon Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were impor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | 'Shared Devotion, Shared Food' explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Jon Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, this text reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (332 pages) : map (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197574867 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197574836.001.0001 |