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| ISBN: | 0203482239
9780203482230
0415342945
1134291388
9781134291380
1280400277
9781280400278
9786610400270
661040027X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-281) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century. It investigates the limits of sociological and secular historical analysis of the caste system in South Asia and argues for ways of describing life-forms generated by caste on the subcontinent that supplement the accounts of caste in the social sciences. By.
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| Other form: | Print version: Ganguly, Debjani. Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity. London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 0415342945
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