Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age / Susan Bayly. [e...
Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age / Susan Bayly. [e...
Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age / Susan Bayly. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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English
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1 online resource (xi, 421 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Map 1. The break-up of the Mughal empire, c. 1766 -- Map 2. British India, 1858-1947 -- Map 3. India after Independence, 1956-1987 -- 1. Historical origins of a 'caste society' -- 2. The 'Brahman Raj': kings and service people c. 1700-1830 -- 3. Western 'orientalists' and the colonial perception of...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
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1999.
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The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an his...
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Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age / Susan Bayly. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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The new Cambridge history of India ; IV, 3
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English
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0-511-00684-5
1-139-05338-8
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305.5/122/0954
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991023970911402626
