Castes of Mind Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

Name: Castes of Mind Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
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ISBN: 9780691088952

ISBN-10: 0691088950

ISBN-13: 9780691088952

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nicholas B. Dirks

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This volume traces the caste and its system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 10/7/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.65" wide x 9.09" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.408



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



The "Invention" of Caste



Introduction: The Modernity of Caste



Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea



The Ethnographic State



Colonization of the Archive



The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime



The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive



The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule



The Ethnographic State



The Conversion of Caste



The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom



The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste



The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule



Recasting India: Caste, Community, and Politics



Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism



The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi



Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste



Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament


Coda: The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History


Notes


Index