Caste And Equality In India: A Historical Anthropology Of Diverse Society And Vernacular Democracy (Routledge New Horizons In South Asian Studies)

Introduction: Towards a Cultural-Politics of Ethics in Everyday Practice -- Managing Diversities: Frontiers, Forest Communities and Little Kingdoms -- Local Society and Kingship: Reconsidering 'Caste', 'Community' and 'State' -- Early Colonial Transformation: Emergence of Wedged Dichotomies -- Consolidation of Colonial Dichotomy: Political-Economy and Cultural Identity -- Postcolonial Tradition: The Biomoral Universe -- Cash and Faction: 'The Logic of the Fish' in the Political-Economy -- Ritual, History and Identity: Goddess Ramaca??iFestival -- Recast(e)ing Identity: Transformations from Below -- Vernacular Democracy: A Post-postcolonial Transformation -- Conclusion: Beyond the Postcolonial.

• | Author: Akio Tanabe
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: July 30, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 364 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 036775228X
• | ISBN-13: 9780367752286