Caste in history / edited by Ishita Banerjee-Dube.

Originally published: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
Series Note;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: Questions of caste / Ishita Banerjee-Dube;
I. Caste and colonialism;
1. Caste and the British merchant government in Madras, 1639-1749 / Patrick A. Roche;
2. The census, social structure, and objectification in South Asia / Bernard S. Cohn;
3. Caste and British rule / G.S. Ghurye;
4. Between number and knowledge : career of caste in colonial census / Padmanabh Samarendra;
5. From village to community / Richard Saumarez Smith;
6. Caste and nationality / H.H. Risley;
II. Caste in practice;
7. The birth of a jāti / Frank F. Conlon;
8. The northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu / Dennis Templeman;
9. Dimensions of entrepreneurial behaviour and caste differences in entrepreneurial style/
Raymond Lee Owens and Ashis Nandy;
10. The Sudra right to rule : caste, clan, community, and state in nineteenth-century Mewat / Shail Mayaram;
11. The Mukkuvars of Kanyakumari : on the margins of caste society / Kalpana Ram;
III. Caste and politics;
12. Securing the rural citizen : the anti-Kallar movement of 1896 / Anand Pandian;
13. Phule and the inversion of Brahman myths / Rosalind O'Hanlon;
14. Social mobility in colonial Bengal : the Namasudras / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay;
15. Gandhi and Ambedkar : a study in leadership / Eleanor Zelliot;
16. Rise of the Dalits and the renewed debate on caste / Rajini Kothari;
17. Is India becoming more democratic? / Ashutosh Varshney;
IV. Caste in everyday life;
18. High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, Josiane Racine, and Jean-Luc Racine;
19. Religious hymns / Vasant Moon;
20. Childhood formations / Kancha Ilaiah;
21. The lonely modernity of model town / Mark Juergensmeyer;
22. Authority and discrimination in everyday life / Saurabh Dube ;
Annotated Bibliography;
Note on Contributors.