Skip to search
Skip to main content
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
The Oxford handbook of caste / edited by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
©2023
Description
xx, 660 pages ; 25 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Caste
—
South Asia
—
History
[Browse]
Group identity
—
South Asia
—
History
[Browse]
Power (Social sciences)
—
South Asia
—
History
[Browse]
Caste
[Browse]
Editor
Jodhka, Surinder S.
[Browse]
Naudet, Jules, 1981-
[Browse]
Series
Oxford handbooks
[More in this series]
Oxford handbook
Summary note
"Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social practices, attracting scholars from a wide range of disciplines--sociology, political science, history, literature, and even economics. Underlying this opening of the subject of caste were many factors: epistemic, empirical, and political. Caste is no longer approached through the classical binaries of 'traditional' and 'modern'; the 'East' and the 'West'; or the 'closed' and 'open' systems of stratification. With the growing consolidation of caste-based identities among those ranked lower down in the hierarchy since the 1990s, raising questions of citizenship and dignity, the subject has acquired a new salience. As the emerging research shows, the realities of caste on the ground have always been diverse across regions, often contested and ever changing. This Handbook presents a wide range of essays written by authors representing diverse academic disciplines and perspectives, bringing together the emerging trends in the research, imaginations, and lived realities of caste"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction--Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives / Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet - Section I: Conceptual Frames. Editors' Introduction
1. The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things / Roland Lardinois
2. Hierarchy / Martin Fuchs
3. The Jajmani System / Peter Mayer
4. Caste and Capital / Carol Upadhya
5. Caste and Class / Jules Naudet
6. Caste and Kinship / Janaki Abraham - Section II: History, State, and the shaping of caste. Editors' Introduction
7. Caste and Kingship / Harald Tambs- Lyche
8. Transformations of Caste in Colonial India / Dilip Menon
9. Census, Caste Enumeration, and the British Legacy / Leigh Denault
10. Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste / Julie Marquet
11. Caste and the Law / Gautam Bhatia
12. Reservations and Affirmative Action / Ashwini Deshpande
13. Backwardness / S. Anandhi and Kalpana Kannabiran - Section III: Caste and the religious realm. Editors' Introduction
14. Hinduism and Caste System / Mathieu Claveyrolas
15. Hindu Sects and Caste in South Asia / Raphaël Voix
16. Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category / George Kunnath
17. Caste and Hindutva / Joel Lee
18. Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan / Julien Levesque - Section IV: Local power and the political process. Editors' Introduction
19. The Dominant Caste / Nicolas Martin
20. Caste Associations and the Post-Mandal Politics of Caste / Rajeshwari Deshpande
21. Do Indians Vote Their Caste or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .? / Christophe Jaffrelot
22. Caste, Patronage, and Criminalization of Politics / Lucia Michelutti - Section V: Community profiles and regional trajectories. Editors' Introduction
23. How to Write New Histories of Caste / Ramnarayan Rawat
24. The Brahmins of Urban India / Haripriya Narasimhan
25. Agarwal Banias of Delhi / Ujithra Ponniah
26. Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu / Zoe E. Headley
27. The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal / Sarbani Bandhopadhyay
28. Caste in Punjab / Surinder S. Jodhka
29. Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal / David N. Gellner - Section VI: Dalit lives and predicaments of change. Editors' Introduction
30. Ambedkar's Legacy / Anand Teltumbde
31. Changing Dynamics of Untouchability
Suryakant Waghmore
32. Dalit Movements in India / Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran
33. The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra / Harish Wankhede
34. Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization / Eva-Maria Hardtmann
35. Caste, Race, and Ethnicity / Deepa S. Reddy
36. Caste and Tribe / Jai Prasad
37. Denotified Communities / Kalpana Kannabiran - Section VII: Emerging entanglements of caste. Editors' Introduction
38. The Economics of Caste / Guilhem Cassan
39. Caste and Merit / Ajantha Subramanian
40. Caste and Mobility / Divya Vaid
41. Caste and Gender / Pushpesh Kumar
42. Caste and the Diaspora / Radha Modi.
Show 41 more Contents items
Other title(s)
Handbook of caste
Caste
ISBN
9780198896715 (hardcover)
0198896719 (hardcover)
OCLC
1395536693
Statement on responsible collection description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Supplementary Information
Other versions
The Oxford handbook of caste / edited by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet.
id
99131149653206421