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The Quotidian Revolution - Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Hardcover)
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The Quotidian Revolution - Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India (Hardcover)
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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 the idiom of everyday life.
The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of
social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the
development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the
quotidian world in sociopolitical terms. The Quotidian Revolution
examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian
literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly
donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of
Marathi literature: the Lilacaritra (1278) and the Jnanesvari
(1290). Novetzke revisits the influence of Chakradhar (c. 1194),
the founder of the Mahanubhav religion, and Jnandev (c. 1271), who
became a major figure of the Varkari religion, to observe how these
avant-garde and worldly elites pursued a radical intervention into
the social questions and ethics of the age. Drawing on political
anthropology and contemporary theories of social justice, religion,
and the public sphere, The Quotidian Revolution explores the
specific circumstances of this new discourse oriented around
everyday life and its lasting legacy: widening the space of public
debate in a way that presages key aspects of Indian modernity and
democracy.
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