Sunandan K. N. (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)

Gebundenes Buch

Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Beschreibung

Explores the emergence of knowledge as a measure of human in the colonial and casteist contexts in twentieth century Malabar, India. It undertakes a comparative study of two caste communities in Malabar - Asharis and Nampoothiris for their varied interactions with and intervention in the emerging colonial forms of knowledge production.

Autor

K. N. Sunandan is Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Studies at Azim Premji University (APU), Bengaluru. Prior to joining APU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Developing Societies, New Delhi, as part of the Transnational Research Group project funded by the Max Weber Foundation, Germany. He has also taught at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tulajapur. Besides his academic pursuits, he writes in Malayalam and has authored several articles and short stories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781009273121
• ISBN-10: 1009273124
• Artikelnr.: 64222836