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Western foundations of the caste system

Farek, Martin.

Western foundations of the caste system

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Western foundations of the caste systemedited by Martin Farek ... [et al.].
other author:	Farek, Martin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xi, 274 p. :digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	CasteIndia.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38761-1
ISBN:	9783319387611$q(electronic bk.)

Western foundations of the caste system
Western foundations of the caste system[electronic resource] /edited by Martin Farek ... [et al.]. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 274 p. :digital ;22 cm.

1. Introduction: Caste Studies and the Apocryphal Elephant; Martin Farek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan andPrakash Shah -- 2. Caste-Based Reservation and Social Justice in India ; S.N. Balagangadhara -- 3. Are there Caste Atrocities in India? What the Data Can and Cannot Tell Us; Dunkin Jalki and Sufiya Pathan -- 4. Dissimulating on Caste in British Law; Prakash Shah -- 5. Were Shramana and Bhakti Movements Against the Caste System?; Martin Farek -- 6. A Nation of Tribes and Priests: The Jews and the Immorality of the Caste System Jakob De Roover -- 7. The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste; Marianne Keppens -- 8. Afterword; Martin Farek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan and Prakash Shah.

This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions of Indian social reality. The dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' that we have today are results of originally Christian themes and questions. The authors of this collection show how this hypothesis can be applied beyond South Asia to the diasporic cultures that have made a home in Western countries, and how the inheritance of caste studies as structured by European scholarship impacts on our understanding of contemporary India and the Indians of the diaspora. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students of caste studies, India studies, religion in South Asia, postcolonial studies, history, anthropology and sociology.

ISBN: 9783319387611$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-38761-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

693663
Caste
--India.

LC Class. No.: DS422.C3 / W447 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 305.51220954

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