How Long to Read Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds

How Long Does it Take to Read Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 55 minutes to read Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds by Debjani Ganguly

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds attempts to come to terms with the presence of caste in late modern India by asking two questions: How do we read caste today? Why is it no longer enough to brand caste as pre-modern and backward? The author argues that caste is less an essence responsible for India s backwardness as an assemblage of a variety of secular and non-secular practices and affects that generate everyday life in India, while being in a constant state of flux something that cannot be completely contained in a narrative of nation-building, modernization and development. In order to illustrate the importance of reading caste in this light, she turns her archival and analytical focus on both caste Hindu and dalit literary, mythographic and religious texts. The attempt is not to endorse either the caste-system or casteism, but to resist the reified ways in which caste continues to figure in social, scientific and nation-building discources. Ganguly is in this work admirably cosmopolitan: she is at ease with different intellectual cultures, moving in sophisticated ways between the differect perspectives of social science, Historiography, Subaltern studies, theorists of the aesthetic, poststructuralism, postcolonialism. This is a very learned work, familiar with many fields, interdisciplinary in relaxed attentive ways. - John Docker, Australian National University Debjani Ganguly has chosen an intellectually ambitious project, one that demands both archival and interpretational skills. Her attention to caste as a social sign text, narrative, discourse stems from a desire, evidenced everywhere in her book to provide a language for the description of caste identifications and behaviours as part of the dalit `everyday . This is an important move. Homi K Bhabha, Anne F Rothenberg Professor of English and Americal Literature, Harvard University

How long is Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds?

Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds by Debjani Ganguly is 287 pages long, and a total of 73,759 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 90% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 43 minutes to read Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds aloud.

What Reading Level is Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds?

Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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