Download or read book Caste in Courts Or Rights and Powers of Castes in Social and Religious Matters as Recognized by Indian Courts written by L. T. Kikani and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Structure and Change in Indian Society written by John C. Hopkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally.The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system.Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas.
Download or read book The Caste Question written by Anupama Rao and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative work of historical anthropology explores how India's Dalits, or ex-untouchables, transformed themselves from stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama Rao's account challenges standard thinking on caste as either a vestige of precolonial society or an artifact of colonial governance. Focusing on western India in the colonial and postcolonial periods, she shines a light on South Asian historiography and on ongoing caste discrimination, to show how persons without rights came to possess them and how Dalit struggles led to the transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and personhood. Extending into the present, the ethnographic analyses of The Caste Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian democracy distinguished not by overcoming caste, but by new forms of violence and new means of regulating caste.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caste written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India 1863 1937 written by Chandra Mallampalli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. Ironically, British rule in India did not privilege Christians, but pushed them to the margins of a predominantly Hindu society. Drawing upon wide-ranging sources, the book first explains how the Indian judiciary's 'official knowledge' isolated Christians from Indian notions of family, caste and nation. It then describes how different varieties and classes of Christians adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and nationalist perceptions of their identity. Within a climate of rising communal tension in India, this study finds immediate relevance.
Download or read book The Government of Social Life in Colonial India written by Rachel Sturman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.
Download or read book Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters Relating to the Rights and Powers of Castes Classic Reprint written by Dinshah Fardunji Mulla and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jurisdiction of Courts in Matters Relating to the Rights and Powers of Castes Castes are recognized in law as corporations with civil rights, and an autonomy suitable to the purposes Of their existence (pragyz v. (1887) 11 Bom., This opens a vista Of inquiry, circumscribed but by no means unimportant, into the nature Of those rights, the extent of the autonomy, and the limitations and reservations subject to which those rights are to be exercised. Before entering on that inquiry, it becomes necessary to ascertain the attributes of the term Caste as used in legal phraseology. In its primary sense, the expression Caste means a race Of men, the descendants from one common progenitor, who have preserved themselves distinct from every other race Of. These races, among Hindoos, there were origin ally four. The word Caste is now not only applied to the various mixed tribes which have sprung from marriage between the original tribes, but also to bodies of men carrying on the same trade and proies sion, who, in some cases, the descendants from a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Contending with Marginality written by Chandra Mallampalli and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Calcutta Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Hindustan Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western India in Historical Transition written by Hiroyuki Kotani and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Volume The Author Proposes That The Key Concept That Will Help Us Understand The Structure And Function Of Local Society In Later Medieval Western India Is The Vatan System. The System Dictated The Division Of Labour Within The Village Community As Well As The Pargana (District) And Prescribed The Land Rights Of Peasants Over The Lands They Cultivated The Class Relationships Within Local Society And The Hierarchical Relationships At Work In A Caste Community.
Download or read book Economic and Political Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Subjects written by Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subaltern Studies Muslims Dalits and the fabrications of history written by Ranajit Guha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Undoing Untouchability written by Anupama P. Rao and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scheduled Castes written by N. D. Kamble and published by New Delhi : Ashish. This book was released on 1982 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
