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The present paper sets out to explore the historically mutable and disputable grounds of social identity of the South Indian artisans and artists, or Visvakarmas, by analyzing the practices of caste mobility and assumption of higher status as traced in classical sources, as well as judicial cases from colonial Madras. The primary intention herein is to investigate the historical shifts in identity-formation...
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