LEADER 03915nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910781747303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-51926-7 010 $a9786613831712 010 $a1-4008-4094-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400840946 035 $a(CKB)2550000000049368 035 $a(EBL)776369 035 $a(OCoLC)755415617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000633098 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000633098 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10620113 035 $a(PQKB)10340841 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43242 035 $a(DE-B1597)453605 035 $a(OCoLC)979749815 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400840946 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL776369 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578580 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL383171 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC776369 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000049368 100 $a20010208d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCastes of mind$b[electronic resource] $ecolonialism and the making of modern India /$fNicholas B. Dirks 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (386 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-08894-2 311 $a0-691-08895-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. The "invention" of caste -- pt. 2. Colonization of the archive -- pt. 3. The ethnographic state -- pt. 4. Recasting India : caste, community, and politics. 330 $aWhen thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics. 606 $aCaste$zIndia 606 $aSocial classes$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yBritish occupation, 1765-1947 615 0$aCaste 615 0$aSocial classes 676 $a305.5/122/0954 700 $aDirks$b Nicholas B.$f1950-$0766245 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781747303321 996 $aCastes of mind$91558653 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$88.55$u05/06/2015$5Hist