Kapoor, Shivani (2025) Degrees of smell: understanding and resisting caste. In: The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History. Routledge, pp. 230-237. ISBN 9781003441434
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Examining two short stories centred on the relationship between odours and caste in contemporary India, this chapter will discuss how the discourse of caste and the resistance to it are mediated through a politics which is deeply sensorial in nature. Odours are a bio-social phenomenon, often laden with meanings, values, and hierarchies. This is especially true in deeply stratified and violent discourses like caste, where the sensory management of bodies, objects, and spaces is often the predominant method through which caste is experienced and invoked. The smells of caste are thus indicative of how caste manifests and also how it is often resisted. This chapter deals with two such narratives of reproduction of and resistance to caste in order to open up the idea of subaltern politics against caste to a sensorial discourse.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | caste | India | subaltern politics |
Subjects: | Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Social Sciences (General) Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Law and Legal Studies Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Cultural Studies Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Customs, Etiquette and Folklore Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Demography |
JGU School/Centre: | Centre for Writing Studies |
Depositing User: | Mr. Arjun Dinesh |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2025 22:23 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2025 22:23 |
Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003441434-25 |
URI: | https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/9446 |
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