Caste in modern India : a reader

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Land and Labour in Late-Eighteenth-Century South India: The Golden Age of the Pariah?
The Original Caste: Power, History and Hierarchy in South Asia
Western ‘Orientalists’ and the Colonial Perception of Caste
The Ordering of Difference
Social Categories and Colonization in Panjab 1849–1920
Civilizations, Markets, and Services: Village Servants in India from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Caste as a Social Category and Identity in Colonial Lanka
Sitting on the School Verandah: The Ideology and Practice of ‘Untouchable’ Educational Protest in Late Nineteenth-Century Western India
Anthropological Knowledge and Statistical Frame: Caste in the Census in Colonial India
The Census of India as a Source for the Historical Study of Religion and Caste
The Census, Social Structure, and Objectification in South Asia
Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanthis of Chhattisgarh
Popular Religion and Social Mobility in Colonial Bengal: The Matua Sect and the Namasudras
Social Suffering and Salvation: The Relevance of The Buddha and His Dhamma
Dravidian Movement and Saivites: 1927–1944
Intimations of Equality: Shrines and Politics in Malabar 1900–1924
Holy Infancy: Love and Power in a ‘Low-Caste’ Sect in Bengal
Notes
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Agricultural Labourers in Modern India and Pakistan
Caste and Landlessness in South India
The Growth of Agricultural Labour in India—A Note
The Hali System in South Gujarat
Caste and Labour: untouchable Social Movements in Urban Uttar Pradesh in the Early Twentieth Century
Looking for Brides and Grooms
The Sexual Politics of Caste: Violence and the Ritual Archaic
Caste as Maratha: Social Categories, Power and Region in Colonial South Asia
Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India
Identities and Histories: Some Lower-Caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
Analysing and Ethnicizing Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively
Self-Purification vs Self-Respect: On the Roots of the Dalit Movement
One Step Outside Modernity: Caste, Identity Politics, and the Public Sphere
The Creation of Lower-Caste Identity in History and Popular Culture, 1869—1873
Dalit and Adivasi Assertion
Struggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics
Notes