Author: Madras (India : Presidency). Revenue DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Land value taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Reports and Other Papers in View to a Revision and Recasting of the Revenue Laws of the Madras Presidency
Author: Madras (India : Presidency). Revenue DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Land value taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A Classified List of Books in Store in the Book Office, Examiner's Department, East India House
Author: East India Company. Examiner's DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Socio Economic Conditions of the Tribal Under the British Rule, 1803-1936
Author: Brundaban Chandra PadhiPublisher:
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Category : Ethnic groups
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office
Author: India Office LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: [pt. 1] Classed catalogue. 1888
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Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Index-catalogue of Indian Official Publications in the Library, British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Ascendancy of the British-Raj in Orissa
Author: K. C. JenaPublisher: Calcutta : Punthi Pustak
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Social and Economic Life of Southern Orissa
Author: Bhaskar DasPublisher: Calcutta : Punthi Pustak
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Category : Odisha (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Castes of Mind
Author: Nicholas B. DirksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.