Beyond caste identity and power in South Asia, past and present
Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill
[2013]
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| Colección: | Brill's Indological library ;
v. 44. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757841506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Governing Caste: The Study of State Power and Ethnic Rank in South Asia
- The Birth of Caste
- Territorial Power: The Spatial Dimension of Social Organization
- The Political Economy of Village Life
- A Locus of Sociopolitical Organization: The Household
- Ruling, Identifying, and Counting: Knowledge and Power in Eighteenth-Century India
- Empires, Nations, and the Politics of Ethnic Identity, c. 1800–2000
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index.
