Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

by Sumit Guha and Guha S

'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004249184
• ISBN13: 9789004249189
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"