The Oxford handbook of caste / edited by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
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Series
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Summary note
'The Oxford Handbook of Caste' brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
Notes
This edition also issued in print: 2023.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
Source of description
Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 21, 2023).
Contents
  • Cover
  • The Oxford Handbook of Caste
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction-​Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives
  • Section I. Conceptual Frames
  • Editors' Introduction
  • 1. The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things
  • 2. Hierarchy
  • 3. The Jajmani System
  • 4. Caste and Capital
  • 5. Caste and Class
  • 6. Caste and Kinship
  • Section II: History, State, and the Shaping of Caste
  • 7. Caste and Kingship
  • 8. Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
  • 9. Census, Caste Enumeration and the British Legacy
  • 10. Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste
  • 11. Caste and the Law
  • 12. Reservations and Affirmative Action
  • 13. 'Backwardness': Reviewing the Emergence of a Concept
  • Section III: Caste and the Religious Realm
  • 14. Hinduism and Caste System
  • 15. Hindu Sects and Caste
  • 16. Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category
  • 17. Caste and Hindutva
  • 18. Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan
  • Section IV: Local Power and the Political Process
  • 19. The Dominant Caste
  • 20. Caste Associations and the Post-​Mandal Politics of Caste
  • 21. Do Indians Vote Their Caste-​or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .?
  • 22. Caste, Patronage and Criminalization of Politics
  • Section V. Community Profiles and Regional Trajectories
  • 23. How to Write New Histories of Caste: A Dalit History of Chamars
  • 24. The Brahmins of Urban India
  • 25. Agarwal Banias of Delhi
  • 26. Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu
  • 27. The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal
  • 28. Caste in Punjab
  • 29. Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal.
  • Section VI. Dalit Lives and Predicaments of Change
  • 30. Ambedkar's Legacy
  • 31. Changing Dynamics of Untouchability
  • 32. Dalit Movements in India
  • 33. The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra
  • 34. Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization
  • 35. Caste, Race and Ethnicity
  • 36. Caste and Tribe
  • 37. Denotified Communities
  • Section VII: Emerging Entanglements of Caste
  • 38. The Economics of Caste
  • 39. Caste and Merit
  • 40. Caste and Mobility
  • 41. Caste and Gender
  • 42. Caste and the Diaspora
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index.
Other title(s)
  • Handbook of caste
  • Caste
ISBN
  • 9780198896739
  • 0198896735
  • 9780191998355
  • 0191998354
  • 9780198896722
  • 0198896727
OCLC
1394909957
Doi
  • 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198896715.001.0001
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