{"product_id":"9780231542418","title":"The Quotidian Revolution: Vernacularization, Religion, and the Premodern Public Sphere in India","description":"In thirteenth-century Maharashtra, a new vernacular literature emerged to challenge the hegemony of Sanskrit, a language largely restricted to men of high caste. In a vivid and accessible idiom, this new Marathi literature inaugurated a public debate over the ethics of social difference grounded in the idiom of everyday life. The arguments of vernacular intellectuals pushed the question of social inclusion into ever-wider social realms, spearheading the development of a nascent premodern public sphere that valorized the quotidian world in sociopolitical terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Quotidian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e examines this pivotal moment of vernacularization in Indian literature, religion, and public life by investigating courtly donative Marathi inscriptions alongside the first extant texts of Marathi literature: the \u003ci\u003eLilacaritra\u003c\/i\u003e (1278) and the \u003ci\u003eJñanesvari\u003c\/i\u003e (1290). Novetzke revisits the influence of Chakradhar (c. 1194), the founder of the Mahanubhav religion, and Jnandev (c. 1271), who became a major figure of the Varkari religion, to observe how these avant-garde and worldly elites pursued a radical intervention into the social questions and ethics of the age. Drawing on political anthropology and contemporary theories of social justice, religion, and the public sphere, \u003ci\u003eThe Quotidian Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e explores the specific circumstances of this new discourse oriented around everyday life and its lasting legacy: widening the space of public debate in a way that presages key aspects of Indian modernity and democracy.","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120342843632,"sku":"9780231542418","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231542418_p0.jpg?v=1763679248","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231542418","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}