1st Edition
Caste and Equality in India A Historical Anthropology of Diverse Society and Vernacular Democracy
1. Introduction: towards a cultural-politics of ethics in everyday practice
2. Managing diversities: frontiers, forest communities and little kingdoms
3. Local society and kingship: reconsidering ‘caste’, ‘community’ and ‘state’
4. Early colonial transformation: the emergence of wedged dichotomies
5. Consolidation of colonial dichotomy: political-economy and cultural identity
6. Postcolonial tradition: the biomoral universe
7. Cash and faction: ‘the logic of the fish’ in the political-economy
8. Ritual, history and identity: goddess Rāmacaṇḍī festival
9. Recast(e)ing identity: transformations from below
10. Vernacular democracy: a post-postcolonial transformation
11. Conclusion: beyond the postcolonial
Biography
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.
