Author: Arthur J. Patterson (B.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Caste Considered Under Its Moral, Social, and Religious Aspects ...
Author: Arthur J. Patterson (B.A.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Castes of Mind
Author: Nicholas B. DirksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
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.
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The Language of Disenchantment
Author: Robert A. YellePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199925011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Language of Disenchantment explores how Protestant ideas about language inspired British colonial critiques of Hindu mythological, ritual, linguistic, and legal traditions.
General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Subjects
Author: Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, in 1857, Under Major (now Colonel) Lumsden
Author: Henry Walter BellewPublisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Journal of medical officer of British mission; providing detail of medicine of Afghans.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial libraryPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Correspondence
Author: Leigh Hunt“The” Athenaeum
Author: Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, CalcuttaPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description