The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India

by Christian Lee Novetzke

In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231175809
• ISBN13: 9780231175807
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher