Author: Athelstane Baines
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112383885
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Author: Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Author: Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014303752
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Languages : en
Pages : 234

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Sir Herbert Hope Risley
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Athelstane Baines
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Jervoise A. Baines
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Author: Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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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 the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.

Author: Sir Jervoise Athelstane Baines
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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