Format:
Online Ressource (xix, 287 pages)
ISBN:
9788132119807
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8132119800
Content:
Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber's distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and deflect attention from intracaste differentiation and inequality. In contrast, by focusing on intracaste differences, Professor Singh demonstrates that caste hierarchy is grounded in a monopoly of land rights and politic
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Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and historyPriest and prince : status/power muddle -- Varna to caste : religious and economic/political -- Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography -- Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land -- Changing land relations and caste : view from a village -- Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about Hinduism and caste.
Additional Edition:
8132113462
Additional Edition:
9788132113461
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Recasting caste
Language:
English
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