{"product_id":"the-shudra-a-philosophical-narrative-of-indian-superhumanism-paperback","title":"The Shudra - Paperback","description":"\u003cspan id=\"freeText11604086406935312535\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVedic literature has the same word for both man and God—purusha. The Vedic seers ritually sacrifice Purusha, the God, thereby also killing purusha, the spiritual–cultural 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘This provocative classic is a bearer of audacious hope. The Shudra is a moral paleontology for our times’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Aishwary Kumar, Stanford University\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Original and inspired, The Shudra is a brave book that should be widely read’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Uma Chakravarti, historian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e‘Haq speculates a philosophical trajectory that provokes us to think the annihilation of caste’\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—Vaibhav Abnave, Prabuddha Collective\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Harper Collins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39663814049858,"sku":null,"price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/964_0c1fc4a2-ddd0-4cd4-b94c-c9f3bd375bb4.jpg?v=1648913388","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/the-shudra-a-philosophical-narrative-of-indian-superhumanism-paperback","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}