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Go to todayNon-Brahmin Political Thought and The Communist Manifesto: Reception and Projection by Matthew Baxter, University of California, Berkeley |
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| The tension between caste and class remains important to South Asia studies. However, the two need not be seen as mutually exclusive, with caste refracting Orientalist and Idealist trends and class embodying Universal and Materialist aspirations. The first Tamil translation of Marx and Engel's The Communist Manifesto, published by EV Ramasami Naicker in 1931, reveals a remarkable synthesis of ostensibly caste driven Non-Brahmin politics with old-fashioned class based Marxism. Matthew Baxter a Ph.D candidate at UC Berkeley explores the text and context of the translation, blending Tamil literary sources with Colonial archives, in an attempt to capture some of the tension between caste and class in Non-Brahmin political thought |
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| Sponsor | SAP |
| Date | November 23, 2009 |
| Time | 12:15PM |
| Location | G08 Uris Hall |
| Speakers | Matthew Baxter |
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For more information on this event contact: Durga Bor 607-255-8910 nsj1@cornell.edu |
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