The Quotidian Revolution : : Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India / / Christian Lee Novetzke.

In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface. The Shape of the Book
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
  • Introduction. The Argument of the Book
  • PART ONE
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Yadava Century
  • CHAPTER TWO. Traces of a Medieval Public
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Biography of Literary Vernacularization
  • PART TWO
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Vernacular Moment
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Mahanubhav Ethic
  • PART THREE
  • CHAPTER SIX. A Vernacular Manifesto
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Sonic Equality
  • Conclusion. The Vernacular Millennium and the Quotidian Revolution
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index