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Caste and equality in India : a historical anthropology of diverse society and vernacular democracy /

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This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analyzing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives. Focusing on the agricultural society in the Khurda district of Orissa between the eighteenth century and 2019, th...

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Main Author: Tanabe, Akio, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, [2022].
Series:Routledge new horizons in South Asian studies.
Subjects:
Khurda (India : District) > Ethnic relations.
Caste > India > Khurda (District)
Social classes > India > Khurda (District)
Khurda (India : District) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Towards a Cultural-Politics of Ethics in Everyday Practice
  • Managing Diversities: Frontiers, Forest Communities and Little Kingdoms
  • Local Society and Kingship: Reconsidering 'Caste', 'Community' and 'State'
  • Early Colonial Transformation: Emergence of Wedged Dichotomies
  • Consolidation of Colonial Dichotomy: Political-Economy and Cultural Identity
  • Postcolonial Tradition: The Biomoral Universe
  • Cash and Faction: 'The Logic of the Fish' in the Political-Economy
  • Ritual, History and Identity: Goddess RāmacaṇḍīFestival
  • Recast(e)ing Identity: Transformations from Below
  • Vernacular Democracy: A Post-postcolonial Transformation
  • Conclusion: Beyond the Postcolonial.