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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Brahmin"”.
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The Brahmin Problem: Charity, Expenditure and the Genealogy of Sovereignty in Travancore
… the question of what the expenditure on Brahmins and the colonial, missionary, and Nair critiques against it meant for the evolving notion of sovereignty for the princely state of Travancore in the nineteenth century, I argue that the colonial, missionary and Nair critiques were not just …
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'To explain the other to myself': Fanon, Ramasamy and Identity Politics
… how he articulated his concerns towards the Brahmin Other and the non-Brahmin Self, and his approach towards the untouchable Dalit castes. I argue that his fixation with the Brahmin identity as the ultimate Other responsible for the inferiorization of the non-Brahmin castes, and his …
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Foundations of Anti-caste Consciousness: Pandit Iyothee Thass, Tamil Buddhism, and the Marginalized in South India
… the Indian Self was assumed by the brahmin; (c) this in turn resulted in an internal dichotomy between the brahmin-essential self and the non-brahmin-non-essential other. The means chosen to fix this dichotomy was to nominate the non-essential other's paradigmatic representation, the …
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New England Slave Trader: The Case of Charles Tyng
… the illicit trade of African captives. A Boston Brahmin, Tyng applied the lessons of his time at sea with Perkins & Company, the opium trading firm, to his occupation as an agent of notorious slave trading firms in Havana. This paper uses as evidence records of the captures of several vessels …
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Anna He Purnabramha: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisines, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
… of present day rural and urban Deorukhe Brahmin women (mothers and their daughters), who belong to an endogamous upper caste group that claims to be indigenous to Konkan. Generally, rural Indian regions are modernizing more slowly than urban areas. This study looks at how women are active …
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
… excessive privilege of blue-blooded American “Brahmin” with the plight of Asian immigrants assailed in the era by draconian immigration reform. Fitzgerald’s American West came to serve in his late career works as a representation of moribund Western Civilization, beleaguered by fascism and …
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Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factors and Hypertension in a Community-Based Suburban Population in Nepal
… three or more CVD risk factors compared to Brahmins (OR: 4.54, 95% CI: 2.03-10.1; p<0.001). Those in the highest income quartile had significantly lower risk of having three or more CVD risk factors compared to those in the lowest quartile (OR: 0.50, 95% CI: 0.26-0.97;p=0.042). In the …