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Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane / Hira Singh.

Van Pelt Library HT720 .H57 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hira Singh.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Caste--India--History.
Caste.
Hinduism.
History.
India.
Hinduism--India--History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xix, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
New Delhi : SAGE Publications, [2014]
Contents:
Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history
Priest and prince : status/power muddle
Varna to caste : religious and economic/political
Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography
Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land
Changing land relations and caste : view from a village
Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about hinduism and caste.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
ISBN:
9788132113461
8132113462
OCLC:
865711329

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