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Castes of Mind Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
by Dirks, Nicholas B.
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- Comments: First Paperback Edition. When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a...
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- ISBN-13: 9780691088952
- ISBN: 0691088950
- Publication Date: 2001
- Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom and the editor of Colonialism and Culture and In Near Ruins. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.Dirks, Nicholas B. is the author of 'Castes of Mind Colonialism and the Making of Modern India', published 2001 under ISBN 9780691088952 and ISBN 0691088950.
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