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245 0 0 _aCaste in history /
_cedited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2010
300 _alxiv, 303 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c22 cm.
365 _bRs. 645.00
490 0 _aOxford in Indian readings. Themes in Indian history
490 0 _aOxford India paperbacks
500 _aOriginally published: 2008.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 _aContents: Series Note; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Questions of caste / Ishita Banerjee-Dube; I. Caste and colonialism; 1. Caste and the British merchant government in Madras, 1639-1749 / Patrick A. Roche; 2. The census, social structure, and objectification in South Asia / Bernard S. Cohn; 3. Caste and British rule / G.S. Ghurye; 4. Between number and knowledge : career of caste in colonial census / Padmanabh Samarendra; 5. From village to community / Richard Saumarez Smith; 6. Caste and nationality / H.H. Risley; II. Caste in practice; 7. The birth of a jāti / Frank F. Conlon; 8. The northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu / Dennis Templeman; 9. Dimensions of entrepreneurial behaviour and caste differences in entrepreneurial style/ Raymond Lee Owens and Ashis Nandy; 10. The Sudra right to rule : caste, clan, community, and state in nineteenth-century Mewat / Shail Mayaram; 11. The Mukkuvars of Kanyakumari : on the margins of caste society / Kalpana Ram; III. Caste and politics; 12. Securing the rural citizen : the anti-Kallar movement of 1896 / Anand Pandian; 13. Phule and the inversion of Brahman myths / Rosalind O'Hanlon; 14. Social mobility in colonial Bengal : the Namasudras / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; 15. Gandhi and Ambedkar : a study in leadership / Eleanor Zelliot; 16. Rise of the Dalits and the renewed debate on caste / Rajini Kothari; 17. Is India becoming more democratic? / Ashutosh Varshney; IV. Caste in everyday life; 18. High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, Josiane Racine, and Jean-Luc Racine; 19. Religious hymns / Vasant Moon; 20. Childhood formations / Kancha Ilaiah; 21. The lonely modernity of model town / Mark Juergensmeyer; 22. Authority and discrimination in everyday life / Saurabh Dube ; Annotated Bibliography; Note on Contributors.
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