The Fall of Gods Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India

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  • R73.3 G137
Partial contents:
Introduction: Kinship, Memory and Indian Middle classes .....1 1. Some moments in history .....30 2. From gods to human beings; Mapping generational histories .....59 3. Debts of identity: on written memories and middle-classness ....94 4. The illam and its dispersion .....127 5. Recalling the beauty of impurity .....167 6. Family histories, reproduction, and migration .....209 7. On irony, Brahminism and intergeneration ...242 Conclusion: The thin elephant in a crowed shed ....272
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Introduction: Kinship, Memory and Indian Middle classes .....1 1. Some moments in history .....30 2. From gods to human beings; Mapping generational histories .....59 3. Debts of identity: on written memories and middle-classness ....94 4. The illam and its dispersion .....127 5. Recalling the beauty of impurity .....167 6. Family histories, reproduction, and migration .....209 7. On irony, Brahminism and intergeneration ...242 Conclusion: The thin elephant in a crowed shed ....272

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