02102nam a22002177a 4500 20181114145909.0 181112b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789352804979 Donated by :Amiya Chaudhuri 305.5 MUR Perumal Murugan ; C S Lakshmi Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell : Caste as Lived Experience. /Perumal Murugan New Delhi : SAGE Publications , 2017. 405 Introduction: The Buried Treasure I Found; A Relentless Voice; Caste in Folk Theatre; Discrimination; Of What Use?; Only Son of the Family; The Ugly Face of Caste; Of the Soil; In Which Ganges Do We Bathe?; Futile Whimpering; Pollution and Untouchability; Ugly Grin; A Kind of Pain; A Wedding Feast with Mutton; Empty Pride; The Deep Pain of Identity; Snatched Freedom and Life; Like Eating Faeces;Born of a Father, Born into a Caste,Upper Caste Goddess; Non-Existent; Dealing with Inability; Testimony; Keeping Friends; Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell; Acceptance or Rejection?; Distancing Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one’s existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent. The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one’s life, there is still death to deal with. Social Sciences Caste-based discrimination C S Lakshmi BOOK 50361 50361 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2018-11-12 1 305.5 MUR 25777 2019-05-14 00:00:00 2018-11-16 2018-11-12 BOOK Reference Book