This unique Treatise delineates the origin of Christianity in Karnataka and its progress over the years with a brief description of Christian Missionaries – Portuguese, Italian, French, and English who did yeoman service to Kannada language, its Grammar and Dictionary. The Book’s canvas of Christianity in Karnataka is wide and colorful. Included are the features of Christians’ daily lives, their culture and customs, their festivals, and the social welfare activities of Church Missions etc., Separate Chapters deal with Christian Shrines and the principal and well-known churches dotting the entire Karnataka landscape with illustrations. It includes the visit of Pope John Paul II and Archbishop of Canterbury to Karnataka in 1986. In a nutshell, this documented Volume provides the entire gamut of Karnataka’s Christian life, their Churches, Institutions, and other essential aspects of Christian life. It also illustrates the unique contribution of both Catholic and Protestant Missionaries like Rev.Fr.Leonardo Cinnami, Rev.Fr.Abbe Dubois Rev.Ferdinand Kittel, Rev.Moegling, B.L.Rice etc., The highlight of the Treatise is the vivid description of Christian Fares and Festivals held in all parts of Karnataka.

It may not be obvious why someone like myself would write my memoir. I am not a famous person. I am not a professional athlete. I am not a politician. I am not even known in my local area of North Carolina. I do not fit into any of these typical categories of autobiographical writers. However, as in most people, I have a story to tell that is unique from many and common to some. We all have stories that people can relate to and sympathize with, if only we just tell them. I find a great relief when I learn that others have survived similar struggles that I am going through. I am living proof that it is possible to live through many things and come out the other side a better person...

Political and academic interest in the idea of the Brahmin notwithstanding, there has been virtually no engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book seeks to address this intriguing paradox in the context of Brahmins in modern-day Karnataka. The book argues that the multivalent worlds of contemporary caste demand that we constantly innovate different modes of approaching it. With this intent, it positions itself against the monographic form and weaves together an ethnography with diverse research techniques such as archival documents, literary works and published writings of caste associations. The Brahmin today, the author argues, cannot be adequately understood as a caste-self that masks its casteness in order to present itself as a secular self. Neither can the Brahmin be seen as a subject that has successfully transcended casteness. As the title of the book suggests, the central tensions that animate the Brahmin self is that of being both Brahmin and modern.

There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today’s Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry – the persona of the ‘Brahmin’ embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation–contestation and dominance–resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste — its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become ‘subjects’ of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.

Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a two-color interior design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.

Malabika Mukerjee an academician, author, poet and social worker was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. Her Bengali novel ‘Amar Nirashrit Debota’ (also translated in hindi as ‘Mere nirashrit devta’ by onlinegatha and available in amazon.in), Bengali short story collection ‘Kichhu sotty, kichhu golpo’ , ‘ochena golpo, chena sur’ are well appreciated by readers and well-reviewed in prominent Bengali journals.