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Caste in History / by Ishita Banerjee Dube

By: Material type: TextSeries: Themes in Indian HistoryPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: lxiv, 303pISBN:
  • 9780198066781
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  • 305.512 2  BAN.C
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Summary: Bringing together a careful selection, this volume tracks the contentious careers of caste among different groups and in distinct regions of India from the seventeenth century through to the present. Reflecting on the diverse understandings, it examines caste as institution and ideology and as perception and practice by charting its varied trajectories and changing contours. It also explores the experiences in everyday life of hierarchies and disabilities of caste.
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Bringing together a careful selection, this volume tracks the contentious careers of caste among different groups and in distinct regions of India from the seventeenth century through to the present. Reflecting on the diverse understandings, it examines caste as institution and ideology and as perception and practice by charting its varied trajectories and changing contours. It also explores the experiences in everyday life of hierarchies and disabilities of caste.

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