01368nam a2200169Ia 4500 20260629142854.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 8188789054 23 248.24 PAT Pati, Biswamoy. Identity, hegemony, resistance : towards a social history of conversions in Orissa, 1800-2000 / Biswamoy Pati New Delhi : Three Essays Collective , 2003 xvii,57p. ; 22 cm. This monograph explores questions related to the notion of conversion that has indeed become a contentious issue in India today. Examined from within the framework of social history, the author delineates the evolution of the caste system in Orissa over the colonial and post-colonial period, bringing to life those involved in this process. Besides interrogating many commonly held assumptions, it opts for a far more flexible and interactional paradigm. As a result, this study accommodates a whole range of features related to the historical contexts and the complexities generated by the process of conversion. Besides historians and social anthropologists, this work would attract the ordinary reader who would be interested to understand the dynamics of Indian society and the challenges that it faces Social history, Hegemony, Identity, Conversions, Hinduis RBK 68973 68973 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 248.24 PAT G8400 2026-06-08 15:45:15 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection