• DOI:10.1515/9781400840946
Corpus ID: 221312146

Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

@article{Dirks2002CastesOM,
  title={Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India},
  author={Nicholas B. Dirks},
  journal={Foreign Affairs},
  year={2002},
  volume={81},
  pages={177}
}

• Nicholas B. Dirks
• Published 2002
• Sociology
• Foreign Affairs

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv PART ONE: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE 1 One: Introduction: The Modernity of Caste 3 Two: Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea 19 Three: The Ethnographic State 43 PART TWO: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE 61 Four: The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime 63 Five: The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive 81 Six: The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule 107 PART THREE: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE 125 Seven: The Conversion… Expand

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