Padmanabh Samarendra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padmanabh Samarendra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padmanabh |
| FAMILY NAME | Samarendra |
| SIGNATURE | SAMARENDRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | a S.A. Jaipuria College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Local jatis and pan-Indian caste
In sociology and in the wider academia, caste is regarded as the basic unit of the Indian society. Yet, this academic notion of caste, I argue, had emerged only in the late 19th century in the course of the census operations in colonial India. Hence, the pervasive scholarly practice of translating varna and jati, indigenous social forms whose existence can indeed be traced from the earliest times, as caste, is erroneous; it has led to inconsisten…
Classifying Caste
Classifying Caste
(2003). Classifying Caste: Census Surveys in India in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 141-164
Local jatis and pan-Indian caste
In sociology and in the wider academia, caste is regarded as the basic unit of the Indian society. Yet, this academic notion of caste, I argue, had emerged only in the late 19th century in the course of the census operations in colonial India. Hence, the pervasive scholarly practice of translating varna and jati, indigenous social forms whose existence can indeed be traced from the earliest times, as caste, is erroneous; it has led to inconsisten…
Classifying Caste
Classifying Caste
(2003). Classifying Caste: Census Surveys in India in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 141-164
Local jatis and pan-Indian caste
In sociology and in the wider academia, caste is regarded as the basic unit of the Indian society. Yet, this academic notion of caste, I argue, had emerged only in the late 19th century in the course of the census operations in colonial India. Hence, the pervasive scholarly practice of translating varna and jati, indigenous social forms whose existence can indeed be traced from the earliest times, as caste, is erroneous; it has led to inconsisten…
Caste (3 works) · Census (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works)