Beyond Caste Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
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2013
/ Engelsk
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9789004249189
Publisert
2013-09-13
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524 gr
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235 mm
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155 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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Sumit Guha, Ph.D. (1981), University of Cambridge, is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include Environment and Ethnicity in India, c.1200-1991 (1999) and Health and Population in South Asia from Earliest Times to the Present (2001).
'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 and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
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Beyond Caste traces the many changes South Asian society through the centuries and shows how 'caste' should be understood as a politically inflected and complex form of ethnic stratification that persisted across religious affiliations.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789004249189
Publisert
2013-09-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Brill
Vekt
524 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Forfatter