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Author : Karen Isaksen Leonard
Publisher : Berkeley : University of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : PSU:000002643168
This Book Chroincles The Social History Of The Kayas The Caste In India. Without Dust Jacket But In Excellent Condition Otherwise. Ex Libris
Author : Karen I. Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783748469
Author : C. Dwarakanath Gupta
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 8170997267
On the Vaisyas caste of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Author : R.K. Pruthi
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8171418473
Contents: Introduction, The Caste System, India s Social Customs and Systems, The Changing Concept of Caste in India: History and Review, Society: Class, Family and Individual, Division of Castes, Expulsion from Caste, Caste System: A Case of South India, Caste System in India, Various Rules: Religion and Caste, Organisation and Jurisdiction, Disintegration and Multiplication of Caste, Caste and Structure of Society, Our Social Heritage.
Author : Martin Fárek,Dunkin Jalki,Sufiya Pathan,Prakash Shah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319387611
This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions of Indian social reality. The dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ that we have today are results of originally Christian themes and questions. The authors of this collection show how this hypothesis can be applied beyond South Asia to the diasporic cultures that have made a home in Western countries, and how the inheritance of caste studies as structured by European scholarship impacts on our understanding of contemporary India and the Indians of the diaspora. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students of caste studies, India studies, religion in South Asia, postcolonial studies, history, anthropology and sociology.
Author : S. N. Sadasivan
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 817648170X
Author : Ekta Singh
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8178353016
1. Caste System: Early Stages 2. Caste Determines Social Positions 3. Evolution of Castes 4. Castes in India-Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development 5. Annihilation of Caste 6. The Social Reforms 7. Caste System in Modern India 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Author : Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019577843
Ketkar reveals the complex social and legal systems that underlie India's caste system, shedding new light on this ancient and controversial institution. A must-read for anyone interested in Indian history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400840946
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Author : Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Caste
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014263792
Author : Arthur J. Patterson (B.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Caste
ISBN : NLS:V000654976
Author : Ajantha Subramanian
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674243484
How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
Author : Nadiia Kudriashova
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783346036834
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: MA, Oregon State University, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses India's caste system from Ancient to modern. During the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, many countries of the East developed along the path of modernization of social, political, and socio-economic life. In some states, this process was interrupted by social explosions, which led to a rollback to the past. Others appeared capable of finding a viable balance between traditional and modern values. In both cases, specific political systems emerged, which are characterized by the coexistence of Western democratic principles and traditional social institutions. Thus, in India, on the one hand, the involvement of the caste in political life led to some transformation of this ancient social structure and retained its position in modern society; on the other, it created such a phenomenon as "democracy of the castes". Castes/jati are formed on the basis of a related self-organization; they have a different origin, but most of them go back to archaic tribes and tribal fragments; they are characterized by endogamy, hereditary profession, originality of culture. Ideological substantiations of the caste mode of communication are directly related to the fundamental concepts of Hinduism, dharma, karma, and sansara, which describe Indian ideas about the laws of the existence of the Universe and nature. Modern Indian society is distinguished by its phenomenal mosaic composition. Numerous and diverse linguistic, ethnic, confessional, caste groups not only coexist, but they are intertwined in the fabric of a social organism. Indians' identity is usually vague; its different variants come to the fore in different contexts; they overlap and complement each other. Entire communities do not have an unambiguous scientific nomination.
Author : Ram Sharan Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788120808737
The present work has been undertaken not only to provide an adequate treatment of the position of the sudras in ancient times, but also to evaluate their modern characterizations, either based on insufficient data, or inspired by reformist or anti-reformist motives. Here an attempt has been made to present a connected and systematic account of the various developments in the position of the sudras down to circa A.D. 600. Since the sudras were regarded as the laboring class, in this study particular attention has been paid to the investigation of their material conditions has been paid to their economic and social relations with the members of the higher varnas. This has naturally involved the study of the position of slaves, with whom the sudras were considered identical. The untouchables are also theoretically placed in the category of sudras, and hence their origin and position has also been discussed in some detail.
Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : India
ISBN : 8131719588
Contributed seminar papers.