hiya. ive seen you talk about hinduism as an apartheid religion that exists through the colonial projects of brahminization and sanskritization and i was wondering if you had any sources (books articles etc.) that i could go to so i can learn more about it? i feel like i currently only have tumblr posts to refer to.
there's lots of ideas that are pithily summarised in this ask that can lead to confusion as to which colonial encounter and when said social processes are happening. i've not added any doorstopper theory type books and preferred an essay when i can.
caste as apartheid, essential to hinduism and the role of brahminisation in it
br ambedkar. annihilation of caste (edited speech) and castes in india (paper)
kancha illiah. why i am not a hindu (book)
anand teltumbe. persistence of caste: the khairlanji murders and india’s hidden apartheid (book)
modern hinduism as created in the colonial era in response to the pressures and the encounter with british colonisation and how caste changes with it
john zavos: representing religion in colonial india (essay) and arya samaj and the history of hindu nationalism (essay)
richard king: colonialism, hinduism and the discourse of religion (essay)
caste in modern india by tanika and sumit sarkar (essay collection) rec essays by dirks, bayly, guha, bernard cohn, sekhar bandopadhyay, anupama rao, sumit sarkar and jaffrelot
alternatively i really like sumit guhas book beyond caste
the forces of sanskritisation and brahminisation which predate colonialism — the encounter between hegemonic vedic religion and little tradition
mn srinivas: a note on sanskritisation and westernisation (original 1956 essay on what it is)
romila thapar: syndicated moksha (essay) and why can't we think of civilisation as a process of tracking cultures (speech) and her textbook early india from origins to AD 1300 really explicates it.
hinduism as settler religion i'd look to treatments of advasis
tribes & adivasi: religion and the politics of tribal identity
on the tribal schools: eklavya model residential schools (btw if you're not aware, eklavya is famously the tribal archer in the mahabharat who is made to chop off his thumb because he is lower caste and secretly learns from the image of a brahmin teacher and his skill shows up the brahmin arjuna)
nandini sundar: subalterns and sovereigns (book) traces the pre, colonial and post colonial encounter in bastar
lots of people on here have their own favourite essays and books and are encouraged to suggest them
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