03204nam 22006854a 450 991081872650332120200520144314.01-134-29137-X1-134-29138-81-280-40027-797866104002700-203-48223-910.4324/9780203482230 (CKB)1000000000248372(EBL)256909(OCoLC)475972115(SSID)ssj0000118596(PQKBManifestationID)11915505(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000118596(PQKBWorkID)10053947(PQKB)11234008(MiAaPQ)EBC256909(Au-PeEL)EBL256909(CaPaEBR)ebr10163815(CaONFJC)MIL40027(OCoLC)67619114(EXLCZ)99100000000024837220041117d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCaste, colonialism and counter-modernity notes on a postcolonial hermeneutics of caste /Debjani GangulyLondon ;New York Routledge20051 online resource (305 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-54435-1 0-415-34294-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-281) and index.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 CONVERSION8. OF URBAN DYSTOPIAS AND NEW GODS: READINGS FROM MARATHI DALIT LITERATURE9. CHANDRA, VELUTHA, AMMU, DEATH: THE APORIA OF THE AESTHETIC; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXOne 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 CasteIndiaPostcolonialismIndiaDalitsMaharsCastePostcolonialismDalits.Mahars.305.5/122/095409045Ganguly Debjani1635773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818726503321Caste, colonialism and counter-modernity3976730UNINA