ISBN:
0-19-889673-5
,
0-19-199835-4
,
0-19-889672-7
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
Edition:
First edition.
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online.
DDC:
305.5122095409033
Keywords:
Caste
;
Society.
;
Society & culture: general.
Abstract:
'The Oxford Handbook of Caste' brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- The Oxford Handbook of Caste -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction-Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives -- Section I. Conceptual Frames -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things -- 2. Hierarchy -- 3. The Jajmani System -- 4. Caste and Capital -- 5. Caste and Class -- 6. Caste and Kinship -- Section II: History, State, and the Shaping of Caste -- Editors' Introduction -- 7. Caste and Kingship -- 8. Transformations of Caste in Colonial India -- 9. Census, Caste Enumeration and the British Legacy -- 10. Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste -- 11. Caste and the Law -- 12. Reservations and Affirmative Action -- 13. 'Backwardness': Reviewing the Emergence of a Concept -- Section III: Caste and the Religious Realm -- Editors' Introduction -- 14. Hinduism and Caste System -- 15. Hindu Sects and Caste -- 16. Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category -- 17. Caste and Hindutva -- 18. Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan -- Section IV: Local Power and the Political Process -- Editors' Introduction -- 19. The Dominant Caste -- 20. Caste Associations and the Post-Mandal Politics of Caste -- 21. Do Indians Vote Their Caste-or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .? -- 22. Caste, Patronage and Criminalization of Politics -- Section V. Community Profiles and Regional Trajectories -- Editors' Introduction -- 23. How to Write New Histories of Caste: A Dalit History of Chamars -- 24. The Brahmins of Urban India -- 25. Agarwal Banias of Delhi -- 26. Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu -- 27. The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal -- 28. Caste in Punjab -- 29. Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal.
Description / Table of Contents:
Section VI. Dalit Lives and Predicaments of Change -- Editors' Introduction -- 30. Ambedkar's Legacy -- 31. Changing Dynamics of Untouchability -- 32. Dalit Movements in India -- 33. The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra -- 34. Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization -- 35. Caste, Race and Ethnicity -- 36. Caste and Tribe -- 37. Denotified Communities -- Section VII: Emerging Entanglements of Caste -- Editors' Introduction -- 38. The Economics of Caste -- 39. Caste and Merit -- 40. Caste and Mobility -- 41. Caste and Gender -- 42. Caste and the Diaspora -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Note:
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198896715.001.0001
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