Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004254855
Series Statement:
Brill's Indological Library v.44
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations Used in References -- A Note on Transliteration and Terminology -- Glossary -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Governing Caste: The Study of State Power and Ethnic Rank in South Asia -- Chapter One. The Birth of Caste -- Chapter Two. Territorial Power:penalty -M The Spatial Dimension of Social Organization -- Chapter Three. The Political Economy of Village Life -- Chapter Four. A Locus of Sociopolitical Organization: The Household -- Chapter Five. Ruling, Identifying, and Counting: Knowledge and Power in Eighteenth-Century India -- Chapter Six. Empires, Nations, and the Politics of Ethnic Identity, c. 1800-2000 -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004249189
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004249189
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
;
Soziale Schichtung
;
Wirtschaft
;
Politik
;
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