Caste, Social Change, and the Social Scientist
A Note on the Ahistorical Approach to Indian Social History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8994071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Carroll (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 63-84 |
| Publication date | 1975-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911800033349 |
| OpenAlex | W4251610881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
The disciplinary dissection of Indian studies has divided Indologists into diverse academic unions, each with its own in-group jargon, research interests, and intellectual traditions. It has also created discontinuities in the units of analysis selected by scholars of different disciplines, which create in turn discontinuities between contemporary and historical studies of Indian society. Thus historians have generally not focused on caste or caste associations, while a central referent of anthropologists has been precisely the caste ( jati ) unit. Partly this reflects a difference in levels of analysis, the historian taking a more encompassing perspective while the anthropologist in the course of his fieldwork concentrates on the grass-roots social world of village India. Partly it reflects the bias of the historical discipline in general toward formal institutions and. toward political, as opposed to social, change
Caste · Discipline · Jargon · Political science · Politics · Referent · Social change · Social history (medicine · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Medicine · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
Ethnicity and Racialism in Colonial Indian Society
Changing Forms of Marriage in Colonial UP
Hierarchy and Resources
Unifying Themes in the History of British India, 1757-1857
Associational culture and civic engagement in colonial Lucknow
Towards the History of Malayan Society
Feminine, criminal or manly
The Challenge ofGau Mata
Brahmins in the modern world
The Seavoyage Controversy and the Kayasthas of North India, 1901-1909
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2024 (46) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |