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Author : Sir Edward Blunt
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Caste
ISBN : 8182054958
With special reference to Uttar Pradesh, India.
Author : Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Caste
ISBN : OCLC:452553562
With special reference to Uttar Pradesh, India.
Author : Sir Edward Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1066826834
Author : Edward Arthur Henry Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0598844139
Author : Sir Edward Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Caste
ISBN : OCLC:10673356
Author : Sir Edward Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Caste
ISBN : LCCN:71093765
Author : Pauline Kolenda
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Caste
ISBN : UOM:39076000673074
It is often assumed that the caste system in South Asia has faded away. Yet it is indeed unlikely that a social structure organizing the political, economic, and ritual life of a people for over one thousand years could be totally expunged within a few decades. In this brief, cogent, and clear presentation, caste is first considered as a system of descent-groups. Then the traditional caste system is analyzed, the evidence for its decline discussed, and the characteristics of the emerging new caste system examined.
Author : Ramnarayan S. Rawat
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222626
"Challenges and revises our understanding of the historical and contemporary role of Dalits in Indian society. A pathbreaking book that rightfully restores the historical agency of and gives voice to Dalits in North India." --Anand A. Yang, University of Washington --
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Caste
ISBN : 1850656703
India has long been dominated by the upper castes, even though the lower castes make up more than two thirds of the population. This book examines how the lower castes have become more assertive in recent decades.
Author : Alexander Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489904
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.
Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593230275
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Author : Alan Gledhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:1120811422
Author : John Collinson Nesfield,United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (Indi
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1017230382
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 : 42,5 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 : Kenneth David
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110807752
