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020			_a9780198896715
028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c: TB2197 _d: 30/09/2026
082			_a305.5 JOD
100			_aJodhka, Surinder S.
100			_a; Naudet, Jules.
245			_aOxford handbook of caste. _c/ Surinder S. Jodhka.
260			_a, United Kingdom _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2023.
300			_axiii, 660p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b3150
520			_aBeginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social practices, attracting scholars from a wide range of disciplines--sociology, political science, history, literature, and even economics. Underlying this opening of the subject of caste were many factors: epistemic, empirical, and political. Caste is no longer approached through the classical binaries of 'traditional' and 'modern'; the 'East' and the 'West'; or the 'closed' and 'open' systems of stratification. With the growing consolidation of caste-based identities among those ranked lower down in the hierarchy since the 1990s, raising questions of citizenship and dignity, the subject has acquired a new salience. As the emerging research shows, the realities of caste on the ground have always been diverse across regions, often contested and ever changing. This Handbook presents a wide range of essays written by authors representing diverse academic disciplines and perspectives, bringing together the emerging trends in the research, imaginations, and lived realities of caste.
650			_aCaste
650			_aCaste and Kinship
650			_aCaste and Capital
700			_aSurinder S. Jodhka.
942			_cBOOK
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