Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Search by :

ALL Author Subject ISBN/ISSN Advanced Search

Last search:

Image of Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Text

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

GUHA, Sumit - Personal Name;

'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.

Availability

My Library Location name is not set

978-90-04-25485-5

Available - and the nature and attribution

Detail Information

Series Title: -
Call Number: -
Publisher: Leiden - Boston : Brill., 2013
Collation: -
Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 978-90-04-25485-5
Classification: NONE
Content Type: text
Media Type: computer
Carrier Type: online resource
Edition: Volume: 44
Subject(s): Brill's Indological Library
Specific Detail Info: -
Statement of Responsibility: Sumit Guha

Other Information

Cataloger: Kholif Basri
Source: https://brill.com/display/title/23788
Validator: -
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): -
Journal Volume: -
Journal Issue: -
Subtitle: -
Parallel Title: -

Other version/related

No other version available

File Attachment

Beyond Caste Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Comments

You must be logged in to post a comment