The Tribes and Castes of Bengal

The Tribes and Castes of Bengal
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Total Pages : 486
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Synopsis The Tribes and Castes of Bengal by : Sir Herbert Hope Risley

The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh

The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh
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Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Total Pages : 532
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Synopsis The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh by : William Crooke

Excerpt from The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Vol. 4 of 4 Mughul, Mughul. - One of the four great Muhammadan sub divisions known in Europe under the form Mongol. Mr. Ibbetson, ' writing of the panjab, does not attempt to touch upon the much debated question of the distinction between the Turks and Mughuls. In the Delhi territory, indeed, the villagers accustomed to describe the Mughuls of the Empire as Turks, used the word as synonymous with official, and I have heard my Hindu clerks of Kayasth class described as Turks, merely because they were in Government employ. On the Biloch frontier the word Turk is commonly used as synonym ous with Mughul. The Mughuls preper probably either entered the Paujfib with Babar, or were attracted thither under the dynasty of his successors; and I believe that the great majority of those who have returned themselves as Mughuls in the Eastern Panjab really belong to that race. In these Provinces they say that they take their name from their ancestor Mughul Khan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India
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Total Pages : 1603
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Synopsis The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India by : Robert Vane Russell

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India is a four-volume ethnological study of the caste system written by Robert Vane Russell. The book is the result of the arrangement made by India's Government for the preparation of an ethnological account, dealing with the inhabitants of each of the principal Provinces of India. Although being a four-volume study, the study is basically divided in two parts. The first part, consisting of volume one, contains articles on the religions and sects of the people of the Central Provinces and the glossary of minor castes and other articles, synonyms, subcastes, titles and names of exogamous septs or clans. The second part, consisting of volumes two, three and four, contains descriptive articles on the principal castes and tribes of the Central Provinces.

Castes of Mind

Castes of Mind
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 386
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Synopsis Castes of Mind by : Nicholas B. Dirks

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.

The Tribes and Castes of Bombay

The Tribes and Castes of Bombay
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Total Pages : 478
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Synopsis The Tribes and Castes of Bombay by : Reginald Edward Enthoven

The Mysore Tribes and Castes ...

The Mysore Tribes and Castes ...
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Total Pages : 732
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D008476509
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Synopsis The Mysore Tribes and Castes ... by : L. Krishna Anantha Krishna Iyer (Diwan Bahadur)

Panjab Castes

Panjab Castes
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Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:590518943
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Synopsis Panjab Castes by : Sir Denzil Ibbetson

The Wild Tribes of India

The Wild Tribes of India
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Total Pages : 260
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Synopsis The Wild Tribes of India by : Shoshee Chunder Dutt