The Oxford Handbook of Caste
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 October 2023
- ISBN 9780198896715
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages682 pages
- Size 251x175x41 mm
- Weight 1346 g
- Language English 462
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Short description:
The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
MoreLong description:
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.
This Handbook is an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand, interrogate, research, and explore caste as something that impacts multiple fields of study, including how the human has been valorized or otherwise by the consequences and tenacity of caste.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction--Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives
SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMES
Editors' Introduction
The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things
Hierarchy
The Jajmani System
Caste and Capital
Caste and Class
Caste and Kinship
SECTION II: HISTORY, STATE, AND THE SHAPING OF CASTE
Editors' Introduction
Caste and Kingship
Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
Census, Caste Enumeration, and the British Legacy
Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste
Caste and the Law
Reservations and Affirmative Action
Backwardness
SECTION III: CASTE AND THE RELIGIOUS REALM
Editors' Introduction
Hinduism and Caste System
Hindu Sects and Caste in South Asia
Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category
Caste and Hindutva
Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan
SECTION IV: LOCAL POWER AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS
Editors' Introduction
The Dominant Caste
Caste Associations and the Post-Mandal Politics of Caste
Do Indians Vote Their Caste or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .?
Caste, Patronage, and Criminalization of Politics
SECTION V: COMMUNITY PROFILES AND REGIONAL TRAJECTORIES
Editors' Introduction
How to Write New Histories of Caste
The Brahmins of Urban India
Agarwal Banias of Delhi
Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu
The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal
Caste in Punjab
Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal
SECTION VI: DALIT LIVES AND PREDICAMENTS OF CHANGE
Editors' Introduction
Ambedkar's Legacy
Changing Dynamics of Untouchability
Dalit Movements in India
The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra
Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization
Caste, Race, and Ethnicity
Caste and Tribe
Denotified Communities
SECTION VII: EMERGING ENTANGLEMENTS OF CASTE
Editors' Introduction
The Economics of Caste
Caste and Merit
Caste and Mobility
Caste and Gender
Caste and the Diaspora
Name Index
Subject Index
