Title: Beyond caste : identity and power in South Asia, past and present /
Authors: Guha, Sumit
Year: 2013
Subjects: Group identity South Asia History.; Caste South Asia History.; Power (Social sciences) South Asia History.
Abstract: Beyond Caste traces the many changes South Asian society through the centuries and shows how 'caste' should be understood as a politically inflected and complex form of ethnic stratification that persisted across religious affiliations.
Contents: The Birth of Caste -- Territorial Power: The Spatial Dimension of Social Organization -- The Political Economy of Village Life -- A Locus of Sociopolitical Organization: The Household -- Ruling, Identifying, and Counting: Knowledge and Power in Eighteenth-Century India --Empires, Nations, and the Politics of Ethnic Identity c. 1800-2000.