Caste and equality in India : : a historical anthropology of diverse society and vernacular democracy / / Akio Tanabe.
This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analysing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives. Focusing on the agricultural society in the Khurda district of Orissa between the eighteenth century and 2019, th...
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Superior document: | Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies |
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Place / Publishing House: | London, England ;, New York, NY : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge new horizons in South Asian studies.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (365 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Towards a Cultural-Politics of Ethics in Everyday Practice
- Managing Diversities: Frontiers, Forest Communities and Little Kingdoms
- Local Society and Kingship: Reconsidering 'Caste', 'Community' and 'State'
- Early Colonial Transformation: Emergence of Wedged Dichotomies
- Consolidation of Colonial Dichotomy: Political-Economy and Cultural Identity
- Postcolonial Tradition: The Biomoral Universe
- Cash and Faction: 'The Logic of the Fish' in the Political-Economy
- Ritual, History and Identity: Goddess RāmacaṇḍīFestival
- Recast(e)ing Identity: Transformations from Below
- Vernacular Democracy: A Post-postcolonial Transformation
- Conclusion: Beyond the Postcolonial.