Author: Dev Nathan
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthropological and historical analysis, in Indian context; papers of a seminar organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
Author: R. Jayaraman
Publisher: Delhi : Hindustan Publishing Corporation
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gaganendranath Dash
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788186921012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prof. Dash Studies The Tribals Absorption Into Hindu Society And Their Upward Movement In The Jati Hierarchy In Medieval Orissa At The Micro Level. The Author Discusses The History Of The Jagannatha Cult By Considering The Folk Tradition.
Author: Kanhaiya Lal Sharma
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The author has questioned the recent conceptualizations of caste, class and tribe based on his understanding of the emergent social situations and new parameters of status-evaluation. New situations, in which different castes and their members find themselves, not only negate caste ideology, but also superimpose a new pattern of social relations on groups, families and individuals. Advent of a tribal elite and a middle class is an offshoot of the role of the state and various movements against the oppressive institutions of exploitation and subjugation. New questions create new situations and social encounters. A changed social milieu does not accept the conventional conceptualisations. Hence, an urge for re-conceptualisation of caste, class and tribe."
Author: Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011-10-09
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1400840945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521798426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author: Keshari N. Sahay
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Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9788171695003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108489907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.