Beyond Caste
Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
Published on 31. January 2024
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-93-6080-436-7 (ISBN)
Description
Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and un-changing Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present.
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Person
Sumit Guha, Ph.D. (1981), University of Cambridge, is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include Environment and Ethnicity in India, c.1200-1991 (1999) and Health and Population in South Asia from Earliest Times to the Present (2001).