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The quotidian revolution: vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India

By Novetzke , Christian Lee

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN
9780231542418, 9780231175807, 0231542410
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5816056 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white), map (black and wh
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in the idiom of everyday life. The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the quotidian world in sociopolitical terms. 'The Quotidian Revolution' examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature.

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