Tamil Brahmans
The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
Tamil Brahmans
The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
Fuller and Narasimhan offer one of the most comprehensive looks at Tamil Brahmans around the world to date. They examine Brahman migration from rural to urban areas, more recent transnational migration, and how the Brahman way of life has translated to both Indian cities and American suburbs. They look at modern education and the new employment opportunities afforded by engineering and IT. They examine how Sanskritic Hinduism and traditional music and dance have shaped Tamil Brahmans’ particular middle-class sensibilities and how middle-class status is related to the changing position of women. Above all, they explore the complex relationship between class and caste systems and the ways in which hierarchy has persisted in modernized India.
288 pages | 2 halftones, 6 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2014
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Asian Studies: South Asia
History: Asian History
Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1. The Village: Caste, Land, and Emigration to the City
2. Education and Employment in the Colonial Period
3. Education and Employment after Independence
4. The Changing Position of Women
5. Urban Ways of Life
6. Religion, Music, and Dance
7. Tamil Brahmans as a Middle-Class Caste
Appendix: Tamil Brahman Demographics
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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