Table of Contents;
Introduction: Questions of Caste, Ishita Banerjee-Dube Caste and Colonialism;
1. Caste and the British Merchant Government, 1639-1749, Patrick A. Roche;
2. The Census, Social Stratification and Objectification in South Asia, Bernard S. Cohn; Excerpt from Caste and British Rule by G. S. Ghurye;
3. Between Number and Knowledge: Career of Caste in Colonial Census, Padmanabh Samarendra; Excerpt from From Village to Community by Richard Saumarez Smith; Excerpt from Caste and Nationality by H. H. Risley;
4. Caste in Practice The Birth of a Jati, Frank F. Conlon; Excerpt from The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu by Denis Templeman;
5. Dimensions of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Caste Differences in Entrepreneurial Style, Raymond Lee Owens and Ashis Nandy;
6. The Shudra Right to Rule: Caste, Clan, Community and State, Shail Mayaram;
7. The Mukkuvars of Kanyakumari: On the Margins of Caste Society, Kalpana Ram;
8. Caste and Politics Securing the Rural Citizen: The Anti Kallar Movement of 1896, Anand Pandian;
9. Phule and the Inversion of Brahman Myths, Rosalind O'Hanlon;
10. . Social Mobility in Colonial Bengal: The Namasudras, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay;
11. Gandhi and Ambedkar: A Study in Leadership, Eleanor Zelliot; Excerpt from Rise of Dalits and the Renewed Debate on Caste by Rajni Kothari;
12. Is India Becoming More Democratic?, Ashutosh Varshney;
13. bCaste in Everyday Life . Higher Castes and Lower Castes in Karani, Viramma, Josian Racine and Jean-Luc Racine;
14. Religious Hymns, Vasant Moon;
15. Childhood Formations, Kancha Ilaiah; Excerpt from The Ex-Untouchables of Post-Independence Punjaby by Mark Juergensmeyer;
16. Authority and Discrimination in Everyday Life, Saurabh Dube.