The Salt of the Earth: Stories from Rustic Goa
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Author: Jayanti Naik
Translated by Augusto Pinto
9789380739854 | PB | pp. 200 | 2017 | Goa1556
The Salt of the Earth gives us a glimpse into an often invisible side of Goa. The non-elite who have helped build and create Goa’s material culture and heritage.
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Goa boasts of much material culture embodied in among other things monumental piles of stones in the form of forts and temples and churches as well as its distinctive traditional domestic architecture. Although these could not have been constructed without the skill and muscle and surplus labour of the lower castes, both Christian or Hindu, who made up the bulk of the people, books about Goa tend to ignore this fact and emphasize instead that it was the elite who ‘built’ them.
This collection takes you to a Goa that is not often visible. This is writing infused with a concern for the cultures of those who belong to the Bahujan Sama -a concept in Goa that connotes the non-elite and often disempowered majority, a loose alliance of Hindu lower castes such as Bhandaris (toddy tappers), Gawdas (tribals), Kharvis:(fisherpersons) and so on.
Additional information
| Author: | Jayanti Naik |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789380739854 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Goa1556 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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