TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guha, Sumit
TI  - Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
SN  - 9789004249189
U1  - 305.512 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Netherland
PB  - Brill
KW  - Caste
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Social identity
KW  - Social change
KW  - Power
KW  -  South Asia
N2  - 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. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia
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