#CSSAAME

Nicholas Witkowski

@nwitkowski.bsky.social

8 months ago

Rethinking “Brahmanization” and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity

Now downloadable w/o paywall @dukepress.bsky.social in #CSSAAME: my most recent study which attempts to answer the question,

What does it mean to talk about #Buddhism as a #subaltern religion?

tinyurl.com/2zu4pe4m

Nicholas Witkowski

@nwitkowski.bsky.social

9 months ago

Volume 45 Issue 1 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East | Duke University Press

Thank you to Dheepa Sundaram @themodsisyphus.bsky.social & Rohit Chopra @rohit.bsky.social for all their work editing the just published May 2025 #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social special volume "Religion and Its Publics in South Asia"

Entire Issue free for download: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue

Nicholas Witkowski

@nwitkowski.bsky.social

1 year ago

Proofs (w/ pagination) now available for my 2025 article, “Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity” with #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social

Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d

#monasticsubalterngovernmentalities

Nicholas Witkowski

@nwitkowski.bsky.social

1 year ago

NEW ARTICLE in #CSSAAME on #monastic #asceticism as #subaltern resistance to #imperial power. Download here:

tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp

“Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity”:

Nicholas Witkowski

@nwitkowski.bsky.social

1 year ago

Friends at #SBLAAR24 - just a heads-up that I'll be speaking at the Foucault and the Study of Religion Seminar. Pls do drop by if you can!

The basis for my talk is my new piece in #CSSAAME, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/ycyfp7kp

Saturday, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Convention Center-1B