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

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

Brill's Indological Library

Sumit Guha

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'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 histo...

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