Recasting caste :
Singh, Hira
Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane / Hira Singh. - xix, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history -- Priest and prince : status/power muddle -- Varna to caste : religious and economic/political -- Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography -- Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land -- Changing land relations and caste : view from a village -- Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about hinduism and caste.
9788132113461 (hardback : alk. paper)
2013047748
Hinduism--History.--India
HT720 / .H58 2014
305.51220954 / SIN/R
Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane / Hira Singh. - xix, 287 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history -- Priest and prince : status/power muddle -- Varna to caste : religious and economic/political -- Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography -- Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land -- Changing land relations and caste : view from a village -- Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about hinduism and caste.
9788132113461 (hardback : alk. paper)
2013047748
Hinduism--History.--India
HT720 / .H58 2014
305.51220954 / SIN/R