TY - BOOK AU - Jaiswal, Suvira AU - Jaiswal, Suvira TI - The Making of Brahmanic Hegemony : : studies in caste, gender, and Vaiṣṇava theology SN - 9788193926918 U1 - 301.0954 JAI PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi, India PB - : Tulika Books KW - Social sciences KW - Sociology & anthropology KW - Religion and sociology -- India KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Caste N1 - Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1.Power, Status and Ethnicity in Caste Formation -- Appendix: Reconstructing History from the Rgveda: A Paradigm Shift? -- 2.Caste, Gender and Ideology in the Making of Traditional India -- 3.Interpreting the Dynamics of Social Differentiations in Early India: R.S. Sharma on Class and Caste -- PART II -- 4.The Evolution of Patriarchy in Brahmanism: The Early Phase -- 5.Female Images in the Arthasastra of Kautilya -- PART III -- 6.Visnu's Incarnations: Strategies of Cultural Hegemony -- 7.Evolution of the Narasimha Legend and Its Possible Sources -- 8.The Demon and the Deity: Conflict Syndrome in the Hayagriva Legend ER -