Caste, communication and power. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Biswajit Das, Debendra Prasad Majhi.
• Editors: Das, Biswajit; Majhi, Debendra Prasad
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Caste and Power in Everyday Life: Tropes, Interplay and Negotiation - Biswajit Das and Debendra Prasad Majhi; SECTION I (Re)imagining Caste: Theories, Concepts and Trajectories; Caste and the Dalit Question: Mainstream Sociology, Marxism and Dalit Studies - Hira Singh; Caste, Community and Communication in India: Revisiting D.N. Majumdar’s Contribution and Beyond - Archana Singh and Biswajit Das; Facets of the Caste System in Early India: Changing Forms of Expression, Communication and Its Spread - Bhairabi Prasad Sahu; The Etymological Origin of Caste, Communication and Khatik in the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries Colonial UP - Vijay Kumar; SECTION II Caste and Lifeworlds: Rituals, Folklore and Orality; Negotiating Caste Hierarchies Through Symbolic Praxis - Subhadra Mitra Channa; Popular Culture and Social Movements: A Caste Based Narrative - Neerja Singh and Namit Vikram Singh; Communicating the Contestation of Caste: In Between Folklore and Modern Literature in Mithila - Dev Nath Pathak; Pedagogies, Social Transformations and New Oralities of Arjak Sangh - Asha Singh; SECTION III Culture, Subversions and Representation; Popular Subversions: Aesthetics of Resistance in Kaala - Prashant Parvataneni; Caste, Class and the Market: Representation of Caste in Hindi Television Serials - Sushmita Pandit; Dalit Empowerment, Narratives and Violence: Locating Ambedkar through Select Films - Benson Rajan and Shreya Venkatraman; Lives of Voice: Radio Commentary and the Grammar of Sporting Merit in Postcolonial Calcutta - Rohan Sengupta; SECTION IV Mediation, Negotiation and Re-appropriation of Caste; Imagined Caste in Digital Banners of Tamil Nadu - M. Suresh and V. Ratnamala; Caste Identity, Communication and New Social Movement - Ritu Sharma; The Power Dynamics Behind Labelling in the Food Culture of India - Jasmine; New Media, Caste and Ageing Population: A Study of Appropriation in Select Areas of West Bengal - Debarati Dhar; SECTION V Pariyan: Print Media, Mobilization and Resistance in Colonial Madras - J. Balasubramaniam; Caste Identity and Self-fashioning in Mulkraj Anand’s Untouchabler - Shardool Thaku; Communicating Caste: Investigating Chandrakanta - Mayank Kumar; Marathas, Brahmin and Non-Brahmin Contestations: Press and Public Sphere in Early 20th Century - Akshay Sawant; Index;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.51220954; Caste -- India; Communication -- Social aspects -- India; Power (Social sciences) -- India
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789391370909; 9789391370985
• Related ISBNs: 9789391370824
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