Castes of Mind : : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India / / Nicholas B. Dirks.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survi...
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Dirks, Nicholas B., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India / Nicholas B. Dirks. Core Textbook Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2002 1 online resource (392 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE -- One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste -- Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea -- Three. The Ethnographic State -- Part Two: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE -- Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime -- Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive -- Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule -- Part Three: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE -- Seven. The Conversion of Caste -- Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom -- Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste -- Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule -- Part Four: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS -- Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism -- Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi -- Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste -- Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Caste India. Social classes India. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691088952 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400840946 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400840946 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400840946.jpg |
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Dirks, Nicholas B., Dirks, Nicholas B., Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE -- One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste -- Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea -- Three. The Ethnographic State -- Part Two: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE -- Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime -- Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive -- Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule -- Part Three: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE -- Seven. The Conversion of Caste -- Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom -- Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste -- Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule -- Part Four: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS -- Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism -- Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi -- Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste -- Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE -- One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste -- Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea -- Three. The Ethnographic State -- Part Two: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE -- Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime -- Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive -- Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule -- Part Three: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE -- Seven. The Conversion of Caste -- Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom -- Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste -- Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule -- Part Four: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS -- Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism -- Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi -- Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste -- Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament -- Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History -- Notes -- Index |
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