| Description |
xxvi, 682 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Oxford India paperbacks |
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Oxford India paperbacks.
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| Contents |
[Pt.] I. History and anthropology -- An anthropologist among the historians : a field study -- History and anthropology : the state of play -- Anthropology and history in the 1980s : towards a rapprochement -- [pt.] II. India as a field of study -- Networks and centres in the integration of Indian civilization -- The pasts of an Indian village -- Regions subjective and objective : their relation to the study of modern Indian history and society -- Notes on the history of the study of Indian society and culture -- Is there a new Indian history? society and social change under the Raj -- African models and Indian histories -- The census, social structure and objectification in South Asia -- [pt.] III. Untouchables -- The changing status of a depressed caste -- The changing traditions of a low caste -- Madhopur revisited -- Chamar family in a North Indian village : a structural contingent -- [pt.] IV. The British in Benares -- The initial British impact on India : a case study of the Benares region -- Structural change in Indian rural society 1596-1885 -- The British in Benares : a nineteenth century colonial society -- From Indian status to British contract -- Political systems in eighteenth-century India : the Benares region -- The recruitment and training of British civil servants in India -- Some notes on law and change in North India -- Anthropological notes on law and disputes in North India -- [pt.] V. Representations of empire -- Representing authority in Victorian India |
| Summary |
On the civilization and socioeconomic conditions of India; articles |
| Analysis |
India history |
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India, history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Anthropologists -- India.
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Historical sociology.
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064872
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India -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064905
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India -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064951
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| LC no. |
87900035 |
| ISBN |
0195618750 |
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0195626168 |
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