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Castes of Mind
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Description
Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus.
Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
390
Release Date:
2001-09-17
Publication Date:
2001-10-07
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0691088950
ISBN13:
9780691088952
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Weight:
662 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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