Conclusion

Making History

Bibliographic Data

ID20051143
AuthorsJ G Snodgra (0000-0003-2725-8063, corresponding author), Jeffrey G Snodgrass
Year2006
Pages167-174
Publication date2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCasting kings (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/0195304349.003.0006
OpenAlexW4245191006
ISBN9780195304343
LanguageEN
References cited118

This concluding chapter returns to theories of caste and to the manner in which Bhat culture and society may speak to such theories, by reflecting on the manner Bhats can be said to make their own history as opposed to simply inheriting a so-called traditional identity and profession. It points to continuities and differences between Bhats and other Indian Dalit (formerly Untouchable) communities. It engages the scholarship on Indian marginal and oppressed communities — loosely termed “Subaltern studies” — in order to ultimately argue for the Bhat-performers’ unique form of “poetic” consciousness and resistance

Aesthetics · Caste · Consciousness · Epistemology · Linguistics · Poetry · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Subaltern · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora