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Antigod’s Own Country

Antigod’s Own Country

Publisher : Navayana
Category : Non-Fiction
ISBN Number : 9788189059941
Type : Paper back
Page Count : 168 pages
Language : English
Published Date : 31st August, 2019
What 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 Brahmins? What is the counternarrative 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.
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