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037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_a294.513 _bSAK/AN
100			_aSakthidharan, A V
245			_aANTIGOD'S OWN COUNTRY : Short History of Brahminical Colonisation of Kerala
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260			_aNew Delhi _bNayana Publishing _c2019/09/01
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500			_aWhat is the history of those depicted as asuras in India? What happens when Adivasi, Dravidian, Buddhist and Dalit narratives, with their egalitarian spirituality, confront an invasive brahminism? What is the counter-narrative to the ritually reancted murders of Mahishasura, Ravana and Bali? Is the trouble over Sabarimala merely about an unrepentant patriarchy? Antigod’s Own Country reveals the histories that are contested in the South Indian state of Kerala. At the centre of the story that A.V. Sakthidharan charts is the asura king, Mahabali, whose subjugation—commemorated annually as Onam—became symbolic of the fate of the first peoples of the state in the face of Aryan domination. This book examines the multifarious origins of the myths of non-Aryan deities like Mutthappan, Suyodhana, various mother Goddesses, all the way up to the cult of Ayyappan.
650			_aBhrahminical Colonisation.
650			_aHistory.
650			_aKerala.
650			_aCultural History of Kerala.
650			_aFestival.
650			_aMahabali.
650			_aHindu Mythology.
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