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Author Guha, Sumit, author.

Title Beyond caste : identity and power in South Asia, past and present / by Sumit Guha
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (236 pages) : maps
Series Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; volume 44
Brill's Indological library ; v. 44.
Contents The Birth of Caste -- Territorial Power: The Spatial Dimension of Social Organization -- The Political Economy of Village Life -- A Locus of Sociopolitical Organization: The Household -- Ruling, Identifying, and Counting: Knowledge and Power in Eighteenth-Century India -- Empires, Nations, and the Politics of Ethnic Identity c. 1800-2000
Summary "Beyond Caste traces the many changes South Asian society through the centuries and shows how 'caste' should be understood as a politically inflected and complex form of ethnic stratification that persisted across religious affiliations"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Group identity -- South Asia -- History
Caste -- South Asia -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- South Asia -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Caste
Group identity
Power (Social sciences)
Sociale aspecten.
South Asia
India.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004254855
9004254854
9781299870550
1299870554