Caste in modern India: a reader Volume 1 and 2 / edited by Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
VOLUME 1:
Preface and Acknowledgements;
1. Caste in Colonial Times:
1 DAVID WASHBROOK - Land and Labour in Late-Eighteenth-Century South India: The Golden Age of the Pariah? 1;
2. NICHOLAS B. DIRKS - The Original Caste: Power, History and Hierarchy in South Asia 24;
3. SUSAN Bayly - Western 'Orientalists and the Colonial Perception of Caste 47;
4. THOMAS R. METCALE - The Ordering of Difference 88;
5. BRIAN P. CATON - Social Categories and Colonization in Panjab 1849-1920 113;
6. SUMIT GUHA - Civilizations, Markets, and Services: Village Servants in India from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 137;
7. JOHN D. ROGERS - Caste as a Social Category and Identity in Colonial Lanka 166;
8. PHILIP CONSTABLE -Sitting on the School Verandah: The Ideology and Practice of 'Untouchable Educational Protest in Late Nineteenth-Century Western India 203;
2. Caste and the Census:
9. PADMANAH SAMARENDRA - Anthropological Knowledge and Statistical Frame:
Caste in the Census in Colonial India 255;
10. FRANK F. CONLON - The Census of India as a Source for the Historical Study of Religion and Caste 297;
11. BERNARD S. COHN - The Census, Social Structure, and Objectification in South Asia 311;
3. Caste, Sect, Religion:
12. SAURABH DUBE - Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanthis of Chhattisgarh 340;
13. SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY - Popular Religion and Social Mobility in Colonial Bengal: The Matua Sect and the Namasudras 381;
14. V. GEETHA - Social Suffering and Salvation: The Relevance of The Buddha and His Dhamma 423;
15. A.R. VENKATACHALAPATHY - Dravidian Movement and Saivites: 1927-1944 449;
16. DILIP M. MENON - Intimations of Equality: Shrines and Politics in du I Malabar 1900-1924 474;
17. TANIKA SARKAR - Holy Infancy: Love and Power in a 'Low-Caste' Sect in Bengal 511;

Contents:
VOLUME 2:
4. Caste and Forms of Labour:
1. S.J. PATEL - Agricultural Labourers in Modern India and Pakistan 1;
2. DHARMA KUMAR - Caste and Landlessness in South India 30;
3. J. KRISHNAMURTY - The Growth of Agricultural Labour in India- -A Note 64;
4. IAN BREMAN - The Hali System in South Gujarat 70;
5. NANDINI GOOPTU - Caste and Labour: Untouchable Social Movements in Urban Uttar Pradesh in the Early Twentieth Century 107;
5. Caste, Gender, and Identity:
6. ROCHONA MAJUMDAR - Looking for Brides and Grooms 133;
7. ANUPAMA RAO - The Sexual Politics of Caste: Violence and the Ritual Archaic 168;
8. PRACHI DESHPANDE - Caste as Maratha: Social Categories, Power and Region in Colonial South Asia 200;
9. CHARU GUPTA - Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India 234;
10. SUMIT SARKAR - Identities and Histories: Some Lower-caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal 273;
6. Caste and the Nation:
11. CHRISTOPHEAFFRELOT - Analysing and Ethnicizing Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively 315;
12. D.R. NAGARAJ - Self-Purification vs Self-Respect: On the Roots of the Dalit Movement 330;
13. M.S.S. PANDIAN - One Step Outside Modernity: Caste, Identity Politics, and the Public Sphere 362;
7. Caste and Resistance:
14. ROSALIND O'HANlON - The Creation of Lower-Caste Identity in History and Popular Culture, 1869-1873 382;
15. DAVID HARDIMAN - Dalit and Adivasi Assertion 402;
16. RAMNARAYAN S. RAWAT - Struggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics 433.

Contributed articles.