Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane / Hira Singh.

By:

Singh, Hira

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, [2014]Description: xix, 287 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9788132113461 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Hinduism -- India -- History

DDC classification:

305.51220954 SIN/R

LOC classification:

HT720 .H58 2014

Contents:

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

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