Beyond Caste Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
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2024
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789360804367
Publisert
2024-01-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256
Forfatter
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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.
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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.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789360804367
Publisert
2024-01-31
Utgiver
Vendor
Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256
Forfatter