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Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, sudden...

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Other Authors: Jodhka, Surinder S. (Editor), Naudet, Jules, 1981- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Caste > South Asia > History.
Group identity > South Asia > History.
Power (Social sciences) > South Asia > History.
Caste.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction--Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives / Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet - Section I: Conceptual Frames. Editors' Introduction
  • 1. The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things / Roland Lardinois
  • 2. Hierarchy / Martin Fuchs
  • 3. The Jajmani System / Peter Mayer
  • 4. Caste and Capital / Carol Upadhya
  • 5. Caste and Class / Jules Naudet
  • 6. Caste and Kinship / Janaki Abraham - Section II: History, State, and the shaping of caste. Editors' Introduction
  • 7. Caste and Kingship / Harald Tambs- Lyche
  • 8. Transformations of Caste in Colonial India / Dilip Menon
  • 9. Census, Caste Enumeration, and the British Legacy / Leigh Denault
  • 10. Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste / Julie Marquet
  • 11. Caste and the Law / Gautam Bhatia
  • 12. Reservations and Affirmative Action / Ashwini Deshpande
  • 13. Backwardness / S. Anandhi and Kalpana Kannabiran - Section III: Caste and the religious realm. Editors' Introduction
  • 14. Hinduism and Caste System / Mathieu Claveyrolas
  • 15. Hindu Sects and Caste in South Asia / Raphaël Voix
  • 16. Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category / George Kunnath
  • 17. Caste and Hindutva / Joel Lee
  • 18. Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan / Julien Levesque - Section IV: Local power and the political process. Editors' Introduction
  • 19. The Dominant Caste / Nicolas Martin
  • 20. Caste Associations and the Post-Mandal Politics of Caste / Rajeshwari Deshpande
  • 21. Do Indians Vote Their Caste or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .? / Christophe Jaffrelot
  • 22. Caste, Patronage, and Criminalization of Politics / Lucia Michelutti - Section V: Community profiles and regional trajectories. Editors' Introduction
  • 23. How to Write New Histories of Caste / Ramnarayan Rawat
  • 24. The Brahmins of Urban India / Haripriya Narasimhan
  • 25. Agarwal Banias of Delhi / Ujithra Ponniah
  • 26. Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu / Zoe E. Headley
  • 27. The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal / Sarbani Bandhopadhyay
  • 28. Caste in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka
  • 29. Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal / David N. Gellner - Section VI: Dalit lives and predicaments of change. Editors' Introduction
  • 30. Ambedkar's Legacy / Anand Teltumbde
  • 31. Changing Dynamics of Untouchability
  • Suryakant Waghmore
  • 32. Dalit Movements in India / Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran
  • 33. The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra / Harish Wankhede
  • 34. Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization / Eva-Maria Hardtmann
  • 35. Caste, Race, and Ethnicity / Deepa S. Reddy
  • 36. Caste and Tribe / Jai Prasad
  • 37. Denotified Communities / Kalpana Kannabiran - Section VII: Emerging entanglements of caste. Editors' Introduction
  • 38. The Economics of Caste / Guilhem Cassan
  • 39. Caste and Merit / Ajantha Subramanian
  • 40. Caste and Mobility / Divya Vaid
  • 41. Caste and Gender / Pushpesh Kumar
  • 42. Caste and the Diaspora / Radha Modi.