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Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal book cover

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Caste, Culture and Hegemony Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal

By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Copyright 2026
240 Pages
by Routledge India

240 Pages
by Routledge India
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This book looks at how the caste system has withstood resistance from below and survived the challenge of colonial modernity. By using empirical data from Bengal, it explores how Hindu caste society has sought to maintain its cultural hegemony and structural cohesion by frustrating reformist endeavours, by co-opting challenges by the Dalit and by marginalizing internal dissidence during the... Read more

Introduction: Historiography of caste in Bengal  Chapter 1. Caste and power: competing discourses in colonial Bengal Chapter 2. Caste and popular religion: revolt against hierarchy and its limits Chapter 3. Caste and social reform: the case of widow-remarriage Chapter 4. Caste and gender: social mobility and status of women Chapter 5. Caste and the territorial nation: Hindu nationalism, partition and the dalit Chapter 6. Hegemony, self-perception and liminality: Two dalit autobiographies                                                                       

Biography

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Emeritus Professor of History at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he was previously the director of  the New Zealand India Research Institute.

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