Castes of mind: colonialism and the making of modern India Dirks, Nicholas B.

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Dirks, Nicholas B

Publication details: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press c2001.Description: xiii, 372 p., 25 cmISBN:

9780691088952

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DDC classification:

305.5

Summary: 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.

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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.

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