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- Title
Indian or south Indian? The casteist roots of northern hegemony.
- Authors
Chandrashekar, Santhosh
- Abstract
This paper argues that brahmanical conceptions of India centered on Aryavarta and structured by casteist logics undergirds the hegemony of north India by provincializing the south and its lowered-caste inhabitants. I term this phenomenon northernism, which renders the idea of India as synonymous with a brahminized rendering of north India. Drawing from Jyoti Nisha's elaboration of Bahujan spectatorship, I develop Dravidian spectatorship as a methodology to analyze a Bollywood film as a representative text that elucidates northernism. I conclude the essay with a call to center casteism as a first step towards understanding different oppressions constituting Indian society.
- Subjects
INDIA; HEGEMONY; CASTE discrimination; CALL centers; OPPRESSION
- Publication
Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, 2023, Vol 16, Issue 2, p91
- ISSN
1751-3057
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1080/17513057.2021.1988134