Guest guest Posted June 11, 2001 Report Share Posted June 11, 2001 Dear members of the list, I am looking for references to studies of how Shudras, Chandhalas, Mlecchas and similar lowly people are treated in Sanskrit literature. Any help would be welcome. Lars Martin Fosse Dr. art. Lars Martin Fosse Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114, 0674 Oslo Norway Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45 Fax 1: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax 2: +47 85 02 12 50 (InFax) Email: lmfosse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 14, 2001 Report Share Posted June 14, 2001 > Lars Martin Fosse <lmfosse@o...> > Mon Jun 11, 2001 10:27 am > Bibliographic reference >Dear members of the list, >I am looking for references to studies of how Shudras, Chandhalas, >Mlecchas and similar lowly people are treated in Sanskrit literature. >Any help would be welcome. >Lars Martin Fosse Without Caste, what is different in India compared to other countries? Though the volume is on varied things on Caste not just on untouchabilty, it is a must read. BTW, this is festschrift for the cultural anthropologist who first started American systematic studies of castes/tribes of India. Previously it was mostly 19th century British officals and Missionaries. D. Mandelbaum is a pioneer like W. N. Brown who pushed Sanskrit studies. Paul Hockings (ed.), Dimensions of Social life: Essays in honor of David G. Mandelbaum, 1987, Mouton de Gruyter:NY/Berlin/Amsterdam. Aghehananda Bharati, The denial of Caste in modern urban parlance, p. 507-523, deals with an intriguing phenomenon. One of the last papers, A. Bharati's words assure that he understands Indian civilization better with his life long commitment and study. The article starts thus: " A rough count of caste related items listed in the Patterson volume (1981) and in publications in German and French accessible to me yields some twelve-hundred items, of which about one third are full size mongraphs. Were one to add publications on caste in Indian languages, in Japanese and in Russian, the figure would be substantially larger. .... With indefinitely proliferating production on what remains a single socio-cultural template, on a par perhaps with class, it is amazing that there is no single monograph about the *denial* of caste. If there is an article or some other essay-like study, I am unaware of it..... Yet very few have taken notice of a strongly present, ubiquitous speech syndrome. Hindus - modern Hindus, not only but predominantly urban - deny that there is caste, at least when they interact with the researcher in English. They do not do so in the Indian vernacular because they cannot. Caste cannot be denied as an existent, social, literary, or other, in a single proposition in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil or Telugu as it can be denied in the English proposition of the type "caste does not exist [anymore]caste has been abolished." More about this crucial point later." [End Quote]. Regards, N. Ganesan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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