Castes of Mind : : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India / / Nicholas B. Dirks.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2002 |
| Năm xuất bản: | 2011 |
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| Ngôn ngữ: | English |
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part One: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE
- One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste
- Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea
- Three. The Ethnographic State
- Part Two: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE
- Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime
- Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive
- Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule
- Part Three: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE
- Seven. The Conversion of Caste
- Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom
- Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste
- Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule
- Part Four: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS
- Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism
- Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi
- Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste
- Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament
- Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History
- Notes
- Index