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

By: Publication details: New Delhi: Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2024Description: 236ISBN:
  • 9789360804367
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5122 GUH
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals July 2025-Liberal Arts and Humanities
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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.

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