Contents:VOLUME 1
I. Caste in Colonial Times
1 Land and Labour in Late-Eighteenth-Century South India: The Golden Age of the Pariah?
2 The Original Caste: Power, History and Hierarchy in South Asia
3 Western 'Orientalists' and the Colonial Perception of Caste
4 The Ordering of Difference
5 Social Categories and Colonization in Panjab 1849-1920
6 Civilizations, Markets, and Services: Village Servants in India from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries*"
7 Caste as a Social Category and Identity in Colonial Lanka
8 Sitting on the School Verandah: The Ideology and Practice of 'Untouchable' Educational Protest in Late Nineteenth-Century Western India
ii. Caste and the Census
9 Anthropological Knowledge and Statistical Frame: Caste in the Census in Colonial India
10 The Census of India as a Source for the Historical Study of Religion and Caste
11 The Census, Social Structure, and Objectification in South Asia
3. Caste, Sect,Religion
12 Myths, Symbols and Community: Satnampanthis of Chhattisgarh
13 Popular Religion and Social Mobility in Colonial Bengal: The Matua Sect and the Namasudras
14 Social Suffering and Salvation: The Relevance of The Buddha and His Dhamma
15 Dravidian Movement and Saivites: 1927-1944
16 Intimations of Equality: Shrines and Politics in Malabar 1900-1924
17 Holy Infancy; Love and Power in a 'Low-Caste' Sect in Bengal
VOLUME 2
4. Caste and Forms of Labour
1 Agricultural Labourers in Modern India and Pakistan
2 Caste and Landlessness in South India
3 The Growth of Agricultural Labour in India—^A Note
4 The Halt System in South Gujarat
5 Caste and Labour: Untouchable Social Movements in Urban Uttar Pradesh in the Early Twentieth Century
5. Caste, Gender, and Identity
6 Looking for Brides and Grooms
7 The Sexual Politics of Caste: Violence and the Ritual Archaic\
8 Caste as Maratha: Social Categories, Power and Region in Colonial South Asia
9 Feminine, Criminal, or Manly? Imaging Dalit Masculinities in Colonial North India
10 SumitSarkar Identities and Histories: Some Lower-caste Narratives from Early Twentieth-Century Bengal
6. Caste and the Nation
11 Analysing and Ethnicizing Caste to Eradicate it More Effectively
12 Self-Purification vs Self-Respect: On the Roots of the Dalit Movement
13 One Step Outside Modernity: Caste, Identity Politics, and the Public Sphere
7. Caste and Resistance
14 The Creation of Lower-Caste Identity in History and Popular Culture, 1869-1873
15 Dalit and Adivasi Assertion
16 Struggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics
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