ISBN:
9780198896722
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 660 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5/122
Keywords:
Caste
;
Caste History
;
Group identity History
;
Power (Social sciences) History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Indien
;
Kaste
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.
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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