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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783901303321

Autore

Ganguly Debjani

Titolo

Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity : notes on a postcolonial hermeneutics of caste / / Debjani Ganguly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-29137-X

1-134-29138-8

1-280-40027-7

9786610400270

0-203-48223-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/122/095409045

Soggetti

Caste - India

Postcolonialism - India

Dalits

Mahars

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATIONS; CONTENTS; PROLOGUE; 1. MODERNIT, POSTCOLONIALITY AND THE NEW HUMANITIES: TOWARDS A NON-HOLISTIC READING OF CASTE; 2. THE DARK ROCK OF INDIAN TRADITION: CASTE AND ORIENTALISM; 3. THE ANOMALOUS INSIDER: CASTE AND NATIONALISM; 4. AN INTRACTABLE DUALISM: CASTE AND MARXISM; 5. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF REVENGE: CASTE AND POST-ORIENTALISM; 6. DALIT MYTHOGRAPHIES: AMBEDKAR AS MODERNIT'S INTERLOCUTOR; 7. BUDDHA, BHAKTI AND 'SUPERSTITION': A POST-SECULAR READING OF DALIT CONVERSION

8. OF URBAN DYSTOPIAS AND NEW GODS: READINGS FROM MARATHI DALIT LITERATURE9. CHANDRA, VELUTHA, AMMU, DEATH: THE APORIA OF THE AESTHETIC; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book



discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century. It investigates the limits of sociological and secular historical analysis of the caste system in South Asia and argues for ways of describing life-forms generated by caste on the subcontinent that supplement the accounts of caste in the social sciences. By