Elites in South Asia
By: edited by Edmund Leach and S.N. Mukherjee
Contributors: Leach, Edmund Ronald.; Mukherjee, Soumyendra Nath.; University of Cambridge.  Center for South Asian Studies.; University of Cambridge.  St. Johns' College.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 25, 1970
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Elite (Social sciences) -- Congresses; Upper class -- India -- Congress
Description: A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. The problems delineated are by no means peculiar to the Indian subcontinent. Nearly all the developing countries of contemporary Asia, Africa and Latin America are entangled with their post-colonial heritage and the history of political elitism in all these countries has been similar. The papers consider who were members of the elites, in the sense of 'men at the top'. They enquire how they got there, how they continued to recruit themselves and what was their relationship with the British. The contributors, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians, present each other with forms of evidence which are unfamiliar and, in sum, result in a study which destroys many of the conventional clichés of colonial historians.--Publisher description.
Notes: Papers originally prepared for a seminar held at St. John's College, Cambridge, in April, 1968 under the auspices of the University Centre of South Asian Studies. *** Includes bibliographical references.

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