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- catalog abstract "This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.".
- catalog contributor b12316776.
- catalog coverage "India History British occupation, 1765-1947.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century. It surveys the rise of caste politics and how caste-based movements have threatened nationalist consensus.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The "invention" of caste. Introduction: The modernity of cast -- Homo hierarchicus: the origins of an idea -- The ethnographic state -- pt. 2. Colonization of the archive. The original caste: social identity in the Old Regime -- The textualization of tradition: biography of an archive -- The imperial archive: colonial knowledge and colonial rule -- pt. 3. The ethnographic state. The conversion of caste -- The policing of tradition: colonial anthropology and the invention of custom -- The body of caste: anthropology and the criminalization of caste -- The enumeration of caste: anthropology as colonial rule -- pt. 4. Recasting India: caste, community, and politics. Toward a nationalist sociology of India: nationalism and Brahmanism -- The reformation of caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi -- Caste politics and the politics of caste -- Conclusion: Caste and the postcolonial predicament -- Coda: The burden of the past: on colonialism and the writing of history.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 372 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691088942 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691088950 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "India History British occupation, 1765-1947.".
- catalog spatial "India.".
- catalog subject "305.5/122/0954 21".
- catalog subject "Caste India.".
- catalog subject "DS422.C3 D58 2001".
- catalog subject "Social classes India.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The "invention" of caste. Introduction: The modernity of cast -- Homo hierarchicus: the origins of an idea -- The ethnographic state -- pt. 2. Colonization of the archive. The original caste: social identity in the Old Regime -- The textualization of tradition: biography of an archive -- The imperial archive: colonial knowledge and colonial rule -- pt. 3. The ethnographic state. The conversion of caste -- The policing of tradition: colonial anthropology and the invention of custom -- The body of caste: anthropology and the criminalization of caste -- The enumeration of caste: anthropology as colonial rule -- pt. 4. Recasting India: caste, community, and politics. Toward a nationalist sociology of India: nationalism and Brahmanism -- The reformation of caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi -- Caste politics and the politics of caste -- Conclusion: Caste and the postcolonial predicament -- Coda: The burden of the past: on colonialism and the writing of history.".
- catalog title "Castes of mind : colonialism and the making of modern India / Nicholas B. Dirks.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".