The Oxford Handbook of Caste 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780198896715,0198896719

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• ISBN-10: 0198896735
• ISBN-13: 9780198896739
• Author: Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet
  

Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social practices, attracting scholars from a wide range of disciplines—sociology, political science, history, literature, and even economics. Underlying this opening of the subject of caste were many factors: epistemic, empirical, and political. Caste is no longer approached through the classical binaries of ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’; the ‘East’ and the ‘West’; or the ‘closed’ and ‘open’ systems of stratification. With the growing consolidation of caste-based identities among those ranked lower down in the hierarchy since the 1990s, raising questions of citizenship and dignity, the subject has acquired a new salience. As the emerging research shows, the realities of caste on the ground have always been diverse across regions, often contested and ever changing. This Handbook presents a wide range of essays written by authors representing diverse academic disciplines and perspectives, bringing together the emerging trends in the research, imaginations, and lived realities of caste.

Table contents:

Section I. Conceptual Frames

Section II.History, State, and the Shaping of Caste

Section III.Caste and the Religious Realm

Section IV.Local Power and the Political Process

Section V.Community Profiles and Regional Trajectories

Section VI.Dalit Lives and Predicaments of Change

Section VII.Emerging Entanglements of Caste

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