Caste and Communities in Conflict of Modernisation
Author | : Arvind Dass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9788178882406 |
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Author | : Arvind Dass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9788178882406 |
Author | : Balwant Mehta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9788178847009 |
Author | : Arvind Dass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arvind Dass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2002 |
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Author | : Nicholas B. Dirks |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-10-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1400840945 |
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Author | : Jawaharlal Nehru |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 1946 |
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Author | : Virendra Prakash Singh |
Publisher | : Commonwealth |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Contributed articles, excerpts, etc., most in the Indian context; socioanthropological approach.
Author | : Alexander Lee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108489907 |
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.
Author | : Anupama Rao |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520943376 |
This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Author | : William Gould |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2011-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113949869X |
This is one of the first single-author comparisons of different South Asian states around the theme of religious conflict. Based on new research and syntheses of the literature on 'communalism', it argues that religious conflict in this region in the modern period was never simply based on sectarian or theological differences or the clash of civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that the connection between religious radicalism and everyday violence relates to the actual (and perceived) weaknesses of political and state structures. For some, religious and ethnic mobilisation has provided a means of protest, where representative institutions failed. For others, it became a method of dealing with an uncertain political and economic future. For many it has no concrete or deliberate function, but has effectively upheld social stability, paternalism and local power, in the face of globalisation and the growing aspirations of the region's most underprivileged citizens.