Settling accounts: Indigenous bankers in search of new histories in the twentieth century
By: Subramanian, Lakshmi
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BookPublisher: The Indian Economic and Social History Review Description: 60(2), Apr-Jun, 2023: p.125-157.
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The Indian Economic and Social History ReviewSummary: Jotirao Phule’s engagement with the past is rooted in his political subject-position, wherein he was trying to bridge the abject status of the sudradi-atisudras of his time with events in a distant past, which he designated as the source-events of their current condition. Armed with concrete evidence from peasant oral traditions and customs, Phule delineated a normative inversion of the Puranic corpus so as to recalibrate the past with the present. His conscious effort to mould the perceptions of the past to beget a new future was in no small measure a result of the new literate present he was experiencing. It was print literacy that not only made Phule aware of a pre-Aryan past but also made it imaginable for him. Phule’s relation to the past is not straightforward or linear. There was not only a brahmanical past to be exorcised and cordoned off from the present, but also an absent past of Bali that was to be repossessed and rendered present. There was a known, visible past to be rejected and forgotten, and a buried, unacknowledged past to be salvaged and remembered. Thus, for Phule, there was a past within a past. This article describes the relation between the unacknowledged past and the lived present that Phule attempted to re-establish for the sudradi-atisudras. – Reproduced
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Jotirao Phule’s engagement with the past is rooted in his political subject-position, wherein he was trying to bridge the abject status of the sudradi-atisudras of his time with events in a distant past, which he designated as the source-events of their current condition. Armed with concrete evidence from peasant oral traditions and customs, Phule delineated a normative inversion of the Puranic corpus so as to recalibrate the past with the present. His conscious effort to mould the perceptions of the past to beget a new future was in no small measure a result of the new literate present he was experiencing. It was print literacy that not only made Phule aware of a pre-Aryan past but also made it imaginable for him. Phule’s relation to the past is not straightforward or linear. There was not only a brahmanical past to be exorcised and cordoned off from the present, but also an absent past of Bali that was to be repossessed and rendered present. There was a known, visible past to be rejected and forgotten, and a buried, unacknowledged past to be salvaged and remembered. Thus, for Phule, there was a past within a past. This article describes the relation between the unacknowledged past and the lived present that Phule attempted to re-establish for the sudradi-atisudras. – Reproduced
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00194646231165802
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