Shared devotion, shared food, equality and the bhakti-caste question in Western India, Jon Keune
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Shared devotion, shared food, equality and the bhakti-caste question in Western India, Jon Keune
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Shared devotion, shared food
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electronic resource
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1246580175
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Jon Keune
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Oxford scholarship online.
Sub title
equality and the bhakti-caste question in Western India
Summary
'Shared Devotion, Shared Food' explores how people in western India wrestled for centuries with two competing values: a theological vision that God welcomes all people, and the social hierarchy of the caste system. Jon Keune examines the ways in which food and stories about food were important sites where this debate played out, particularly when people of high and low social status ate together. By studying Marathi manuscripts, nineteenth-century publications, plays, and films, this text reveals how the question of caste, inclusivity, and equality was formulated in different ways over the course of three centuries, and it explores why social equality remains so elusive in practice.--, Provided by publisher
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