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Autore |
Ganguly Debjani |
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Titolo |
Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity : notes on a postcolonial hermeneutics of caste / / Debjani Ganguly |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-29137-X |
1-134-29138-8 |
1-280-40027-7 |
9786610400270 |
0-203-48223-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Caste - India |
Postcolonialism - India |
Dalits |
Mahars |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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