NEW BOOK: Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Anjali Arondekar on the Gomantak Maratha Samaj or devadasis)

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.amazon.in/Abundance-Sexualitys-History-Theory-Q/dp/1478019905

In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj―a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia―that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.

See review in Mid-Day: How the Devadasis fought casteism
https://www.mid-day.com/sunday-mid-day/article/how-the-devadasis-of-goa-fought-casteism-23302028

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[William Robert Da Silva]

When I was at GU I got a lot of work done by a few students on this issue in the field. The result was extraordinary. Gomantak, yes, they said; but Maratha, no. What did that mean? The Mangeskars were part of this search.

W R DaSilva

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