Name: Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
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Author: Guha, Sumit
ISBN: 9789004249189

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

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Physical Book

Author

Sumit Guha

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.1 x 16.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.53 kg.

ISBN13

9789004249189

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

'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.

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