ISBN:
9788132119807
,
8132119800
,
9788132113461
,
8132113462
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xix, 287 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Recasting caste
DDC:
305.5/1220954
Keywords:
Caste / India / History
;
Hinduism / India / History
;
Hinduism / India
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Caste
;
Hinduism
;
Geschichte
;
Caste History
;
Hinduism History
;
Indien
Description / Table of Contents:
Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history -- Priest and prince : status/power muddle -- Varna to caste : religious and economic/political -- Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography -- Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land -- Changing land relations and caste : view from a village -- Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about Hinduism and caste
Description / Table of Contents:
Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber's distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and deflect attention from intracaste differentiation and inequality. In contrast, by focusing on intracaste differences, Professor Singh demonstrates that caste hierarchy is grounded in a monopoly of land rights and politic
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