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ISBN: 9781783085187 (ebook)

Serie: Diversity and plurality in South Asia

Inhalt: Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata's Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste.In Kolkata’s traditional potter quarter of Kumartuli, a modern and a competitive market oriented approach to life is concealed behind tradition. Among the potters inhabiting the dirt-floored workshops of this caste-based neighbourhood, the history of a modern and economically neoliberal-minded India unfolds. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist, and caste is about business as they engage in a competitive market to sell their artworks. This ethnographic study presents an analysis of these potters’ lives and the related commodification and instrumentalisation of caste. An important insight is that Kumartuli consists of a group of artisans turned artists who do not display passive responses to colonial and capitalist encounters. On the contrary, this monograph unearths an ingenious and business-minded group that engages actively with the modern and economic developments of society at large, and, in the process, redefines the concept of caste identity. This study suggests a new academic direction for the study of modern India, and of caste in particular, through an empirically grounded portrayal of the synthesis of traditional categories and contemporary realities.

Anmerkung: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Sep 2017). , Acknowledgments -- Transliteration and terminology -- Prologue: the Durga Puja Bias -- On kumars, modernity, caste and commodification -- The civilised potters and their neighbourhood -- Birth of tradition, coming of modernity -- Ancestral homes : East versus West -- Turmoil and economics -- Mature modernity, education and caste as assets -- Commodification of caste -- References.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: ISBN 9781783085163

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 1783085185 , 9781783085187

Serie: Diversity and Plurality in South Asia

Inhalt: This ethnographic study is an empirical exploration of caste through the story of Indian potters who have transformed caste into a marketable brand in the business of selling sculptures. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and independent artist, and caste is about business, as they engage in a competitive market to sell their artworks

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index , Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures ; Acknowledgments; Transliteration And Terminology; Chapter (Prologue-7); Prologue: The Durga Puja Business; The Old World; A New World; Chapter 1 On Kumars, Modernity, Caste and Commodification; Comprehending the Kumars; Making Modernity the Context; Indian origins; Caste between Structure and Practice; Short depiction of the caste system and the Bengali case; Conceptualizing and contextualizing caste; Dumont, critiques and alternatives; Caste today. , Commodification and AuthenticityFieldwork in Kumartuli; On oral history; Kumartuli and the world; An Outline of the Book; Chapter 2 The Civilized Potters and their Neighbourhood; The First Kumar; Of Rudraksha and the forefather of Bengali Kumbhakars; Burning jungle and the first pottery; Behind the Potter's Wheel; The Development of Kumartuli -- the Story without Kumars; Kolkata; Kumartuli before and after Durga hits town; Life and Work as Seasonal Image-Makers of Kumartuli; The Potters' History and their Society; Contemporary Kumartuli Realities; Numbers and classes. , The people -- Maliks, Kumars and KumbhakarsThe pujas and/as the Maliks' work; Constructing an unbaked clay murti; In the end; Chapter 3 Birth of Tradition, Coming of Modernity; Gopeshwar Pal -- an Artist?; 'We Used to Listen to These People's Names'; 'I Have to Accept My Father First, Only Then Can I Accept My Son'; 'The age of reproduction'; Innovation and pride; When Modernity Settled in Kumartuli; Chapter 4 Ancestral Homes -- East Versus West; On the Ground; The fight for independence; Partition; Bangal, East Bengal; Edeshi, West Bengal; West Ghotis and East Bangals Today. , Chapter 5 Turmoil and EconomicsPatron-Client Economy; Kumartuli Bazaar; Political Turmoil; Indira Gandhi -- the Nationalization Redeemer; Maliks and Labourers; A Renewed Kumartuli Emerges; Chapter 6 Accumulated Value: Education and Caste as Assets; Successful Kumars of the Twenty-First Century; Prodyut -- broadband connected; Parimal -- presenting one's portfolio; Joyanta -- aspiring artist; Kumartuli reinvented, reimagined, reconfigured; A Kumartuli without Mud Floors; Modernity at Large: Caste for Sale; Chapter 7 Commodification of Caste; Caste versus Modernity. , Caste in twenty-first century KumartuliHierarchy and purity; A Kumartuli Lesson; An image of the Kumars of Kumartuli; Commodification and the Illusions of Tradition; End Matter; References; Index.

Sprache: Englisch

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