ABSTRACT
The talk picks up one thread in the millennial history of low-caste fluency by looking at the structural of anti-brahmin polemic in the Satyashodhak movement, from within the conditions of rhetoric made possible by Christian and anti-Christian controversies. Key moments: Phule; Padmunji; Vishnubuva Brahmachari; and later in the early 20C, Vitthalaramji Shinde, Jawalkar. Key parallels: Nietzsche (period of the Late Notebooks, 1886-1888), Auerbach (posthumous publication of work on Literary Language and its Public in Late Antiquity), Heidegger (phase of intensive lectures on Nietzsche, Schelling and Hegel (1937-1951).
BIO
Dr. Milind Wakankar is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi.
For more information please contact Arudra Burra (burra@hss.iitd.ac.in)