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