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Table of contents
Acknowledgements;
Notes on translations and area under study, with map;
Part I. Introduction:
1. Low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India;
Part II. Religion and Society Under Early British Rule:
2. From warrior traditions to nineteenth-century politics: structure, ideology, and identity in the Maratha-kunbi caste complex;
3. The crisis of cultural legitimacy: missionaries, reformers, and Hindu society in the mid-nineteenth century;
4. The growth of religious reform opinion in western India;
Part III. Jotirao Phule and his circle: the emergence of a distinctive radical voice:
5. Student radicals in mid-nineteenth-century Maharashtra;
6. The Aryan invasions and the origins of caste society;
7. Warriors and cultivators: the reinterpretation of popular culture;
8. Maratha history as polemic: low caste ideology and political debate in late nineteenth-century Maharashtra;
Part IV. The Lower Caste Community in Contemporary Society:
9. Religious emancipation and political competition;
10. Social protest and the construction of a religious ethic;
11. Traditional privileges and new skills: Phule's analysis of the nature of Brahman power;
12. The Satyashodhak Samaj in the 1870s; Part V. Ideology and the Non-Brahman Movement in the 1880s:
13. Phule's polemic in the 1880s: the ideological construction of rural life and labour;
14. The non-Brahman movement in the 1880s;
15. Epilogue: ideology and politics in nineteenth-century western India;
Bibliographic note;
Bibliography;
Glossary;
Index.