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Vedic literature has the same word for both man and Godpurusha. The Vedic seers ritually sacrifice Purusha, the God, thereby also killing purusha, the spiritualcultural man. This births the caste-man', who is not man at all. The caste-man is either higher or lower. A handful are superhuman: gods, priests, Brahmans. And the masses are subhuman: the Shudra. In The Shudra, Jalalul Haq conducts a philosophical autopsy of ancient Indian texts, meticulously reading between the lines to uncover the early history of caste. He shows how inequality pervaded Buddhism, Jainism and other heterodox sects, even as they tried to counter the hegemony of Brahmanism. In this clash of gods and demons, Haq attempts to extract the human.

The Shudra:: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian

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      Publisher: Navayana Publishing Pvt Ltd
      Publication Date: 28/01/2022
      ISBN13: 9788194865483, 978-8194865483
      ISBN10: 8194865484
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      Book Synopsis
      Vedic literature has the same word for both man and Godpurusha. The Vedic seers ritually sacrifice Purusha, the God, thereby also killing purusha, the spiritualcultural man. This births the caste-man', who is not man at all. The caste-man is either higher or lower. A handful are superhuman: gods, priests, Brahmans. And the masses are subhuman: the Shudra. In The Shudra, Jalalul Haq conducts a philosophical autopsy of ancient Indian texts, meticulously reading between the lines to uncover the early history of caste. He shows how inequality pervaded Buddhism, Jainism and other heterodox sects, even as they tried to counter the hegemony of Brahmanism. In this clash of gods and demons, Haq attempts to extract the human.

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