Governing Caste
The Study of State Power and Ethnic Rank in South Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23738370 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guha (0000-0001-8983-3874, corresponding author), Sumit Guha |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Beyond Caste (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004254855_002 |
| OpenAlex | W2279468902 |
| ISBN | 9789004254855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This is the introductory chapter of Beyond Caste , which has two goals. Its central aim is to present a new, historically informed understanding of the working of South Asian state and society through the past millennium; the secondary one is to provide the basis for a comparative understanding of the long-run processes of ethnic politics in this area as it came to modernity and experienced modern forms of state power. A caste society uniquely knots many strands at the same corporate nexus. The disciplinary move from the structural-functional study of the “isolated” tribe to the analysis of interacting ethnic groups noted by Thomas Eriksen, was pioneered in the 1950s by the political anthropologist Fredrik Barth working in the western borderlands of the Indian subcontinent. This book briefly reviews their status after half a century of active debate and scrutiny. Keywords:caste; ethnic groups; Fredrik Barth; South Asian state; state power
Caste · Combinatorics · Ethnic group · Geography · Physics · Political science · Power (physics) · Rank (graph theory) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Indian History and Philosophy · Mathematics · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |