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100 _aNovetzke, Christian Lee,
245 _a The Quotidian Revolution
_b : vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India
_c/ Christian Lee Novetzke
260 _aNew York
_b: Columbia University Press,
_c2016.
300 _axxiv, 401p.
_c24cm.
365 _b3599
505 _a 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
520 _aIn 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
650 _aLiteratures
650 _aOther Language Literatures
650 _a East Indo-European & Celtic literatures
650 _aMarathi literature -- History and criticism.
650 _aMarathi language -- Social aspects -- History.
650 _aMarathi language -- Social aspects.
650 _aIndia -- Maharashtra.
650 _aLanguage & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
700 _aNovetzke, Christian Lee,
942 _cBOOK