Identity, consciousness and the past
Subtitle: forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka
By: edited by H.L. Seneviratne.
Contributors: Seneviratne, H. L., 1934-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: Ethnology -- India.; Ethnology -- Sri Lanka.; Caste -- India.; Caste -- Sri Lanka.; Ethnicity -- India.; Ethnicity -- Sri Lanka.; India -- Historiography.; Sri Lanka -- Historiography.
Other titles: Social analysis (Adelaide, S. Aust.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-207).
"This is a revised edition of volume 25 (September 1989) of Social analysis, a journal of cultural and social practice ... two of the essays of the original volume ... were left out"--P. [vii].
Table of contents: value: Identity and the conflation of past and present / H.L. Seneviratne; value: History in the making  / Elizabeth Nissan; value: Three Dispositions towards the past / E. Valentine Daniel; value: The myth of the human sacrifice / Gananath Obeyesekere; value: History, biography and poetry at the Tanjavur Nāyaka Court / V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman; value: The invention of caste / Nicholas Dirks; value: On royalty, caste and temples in Srilanka and South India / Nur Yalman; value: Cultures of rule, communities of resistance / Rosalind O'Hanlon; value: Indian untouchable texts of resistance / Michael B. Schwartz.