ISBN:
9780691088952
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (386 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Caste ; India
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India ; History ; British occupation, 1765-1947
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Social classes ; India
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
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Online-Publikation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART ONE: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE; One: Introduction: The Modernity of Caste; Two: Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea; Three: The Ethnographic State; PART TWO: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE; Four: The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime; Five: The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive; Six: The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule; PART THREE: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE; Seven: The Conversion of Caste; Eight: The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom
Description / Table of Contents:
Nine: The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of CasteTen: The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule; PART FOUR: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS; Eleven: Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism; Twelve: The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi; Thirteen: Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste; Fourteen: Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament; Coda: The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V
Description / Table of Contents:
WY; Z
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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