Caste and Equality in India: A Historical Anthropology of Diverse Society and Vernacular Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780367752286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 322 str.

Akio Tanabe

Opis

This book presents an alternative view of caste in Indian society by analyzing caste structure and change in local communities in Orissa from historical and anthropological perspectives.

O autorze

Akio Tanabe is Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also one of the series editors of the Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies series. His most recent publications include Human and International Security in India, co-edited with Crispin A. Bates and Minoru Mio (2015) and Democratic Transformation and the Vernacular Public Arena in India, co-edited with Taberez Ahmed Neyazi and Shinya Ishizaka (2014), also published with Routledge.