Beyond Caste : Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Guha, Sumit

Manohar Publishers and Distributors（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789360804367

Full Description

Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and un­changing Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present.