Caste : Oxford India Short Introductions
ISBN: 9780198089360 | 0198089368
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/13/2013
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The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of India. Combining authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse perspectives, they discuss subjects which are topical yet enduring, as also emerging areas of study and debate.
The highly complex, dynamic, and enduring social reality of caste in India remains an anathema for social theorists. Combining up-to-date research with accessible and systematic exposition, this short introduction provides an exciting synoptic vie... MORE
The highly complex, dynamic, and enduring social reality of caste in India remains an anathema for social theorists. Combining up-to-date research with accessible and systematic exposition, this short introduction provides an exciting synoptic vie... MORE
Preface
1. Caste as Tradition
2. Caste as Power
3. Caste as Humiliation
4. Contesting Caste: From Below, From Above
5. Caste Today
Postscript
References
Index
Surinder S. Jodhka is Professor of Sociology and Chair, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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