: studies in caste, gender, and Vaiṣṇava theology Jaiswal, Suvira creator Jaiswal, Suvira text Caste. xxu New Delhi, India : Tulika Books ©2016 monographic eng

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x, 244 pages ; 25 cm Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1.Power, Status and Ethnicity in Caste Formation -- Appendix: Reconstructing History from the Rgveda: A Paradigm Shift? -- 2.Caste, Gender and Ideology in the Making of Traditional India -- 3.Interpreting the Dynamics of Social Differentiations in Early India: R.S. Sharma on Class and Caste -- PART II -- 4.The Evolution of Patriarchy in Brahmanism: The Early Phase -- 5.Female Images in the Arthasastra of Kautilya -- PART III -- 6.Visnu's Incarnations: Strategies of Cultural Hegemony -- 7.Evolution of the Narasimha Legend and Its Possible Sources -- 8.The Demon and the Deity: Conflict Syndrome in the Hayagriva Legend. / Suvira Jaiswal Social sciences Sociology & anthropology Social sciences Religion and sociology -- India Sex discrimination against women Sex discrimination against women 301.0954 JAI 9788193926918 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 190220 20190226124335.0