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K.N. Panikkar
Kavalam Narayana Panikkar is one of India's most revered theatre directors. This book goes deeper into the styles and sources of Panikkar's theatre. It includes essays as well as a long conversation with this master theatre director and a detailed discussion on the production of Ottayan, one of his renowned plays. Kavalam Narayana Panikkar is one of India's most revered theatre directors. He has been writing and directing plays for the last four decades and even today, remains as energetic and as creative as ever. Panikkar's involvement with theatre began with him writing poetry and
Culture, Ideology, Hegemony
This volume explores the interconnections between culture, ideology and hegemony in an effort to understand and explain how Indians came to terms with colonial subjection and envisioned a future for the society in which they lived. The process of exploring the indigenous epistemological tradition and assessing it in the context of advances made by the west was not unilinear and undifferentiated; it was driven with contradictions, contentions and ruptures. Locating intellectual history at the intersection of social and cultural history, the eight essays in this book cover a wide range of issues, moving from an overview of religious and social ideas in colonial India to empirical studies of themes such as indigenous medicine, the family and literary fiction. Professor Panikkar contests both the imperialist and nationalist paradigms of intellectual history. Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, his analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.
Against Lord and State
Arguing against the generally held view that the Mappila uprisings of Malabar resulted either from communal tension or agrarian discontent, this book analyzes the complex interrelationships between economic discontent and religious ideology in which the conflicts were rooted. Panikkar delineates the evolution of a negative class consciousness among the rural Hindu Mappilas from the early years of British rule to the final and decisive 1921 uprising against the lord and state.
Caste in Kerala
The essays in this volume deal with caste reform movements in Kerala of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which form the most significant development in the history of caste in modern times. The core of this book Caste in Kerala consists of four essays on cast reform movements among the Namputhiris, Nairs, Ezhavas and Dalits. They are prefaced by two essays which discuss the origin of the caste system in Kerala and the historical process of its fragmentation and proliferation. The closing essay throws light on the role caste plays in contemporary politics. Over time, most of the external attributes of caste system have been rendered irrelevant by the changes that have occurred in society with the decline of the feudal order and the subsequent movements for caste reform. Yet, caste has persisted. An analysis of the internal contradictions within these movements throws light on the enigma that caste continues to be.
Peasant Protests and Revolts in Malabar
This Volume Contains Selections From The Sources On Peasant Uprisings In Malabar During The 19Th And The 20Th Centuries. To The Ongoing Controversy Over The Causes And Character Of These Uprisings-Whether They Were Agrarian Or Communal - The Sources Put Together In This Volume Provide Crucial Insights.
Colonialism, Culture, and Resistance
How did resistance to colonialism form a source of alternative modernity in India? Why did the process fail to strike roots? Building upon four decades of serious research, this unique collection discusses different forms of resistance to colonialism and their role in the formation ofalternative modernity. It also provides an engaging account of the development of political and cultural consciousness in the subcontinent. Investigating three areas of resistance - armed uprising, intellectual dissent, and cultural protest - K.N. Panikkar argues that these were informed by a vision of a condition beyond colonialism in which tradition and modernity selectively, but creatively, came together. Thi...
An Agenda for Cultural Action and Other Essays
Focuses On The Alliance Between The Neo-Liberal Economic Policies And Hindu Fundamentalism, Its Implications And The Destruction Of Educational System. Also Discuss The Hindu Right Wing Cultural Project And Outlines The Agenda For Struggle Against This Homegrown Fascism.
Communalism in India
Seminar papers.
