Sanskrit and the labour of gender in early modern South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3632503 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kimberly Gomez (0000-0002-6339-5308, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 167-194 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x21000640 |
| OpenAlex | W4220838954 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 8 |
In the early eighteenth century, a husband and co-wife trio undertook a household project in Maratha-ruled Tanjavur. These migrants from the Western Deccan jointly authored a set of Sanskrit commentaries invested in the idea of 'Maharashtrianness'. The unusual authoring of a Sanskrit commentary by these women alongside their husband exemplifies broader changes that were taking place in Sanskrit intellectual circles in early modern South India. Tracing new formulations of regional identity, changing ideologies of gender, and shifts in the very labour of Sanskrit intellectual production, I demonstrate how new avenues of access to Sanskrit emerged for women in early modern South India. These new avenues of access were facilitated by the growing importance of the household as a site of cultural production and the rise of new regional courts in the Karnatak and Coromandel Coast regions
Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Identity (music · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Sanskrit · Sociology · Wife · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |