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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    October 2022
    February 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009273138
    9781009273121
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009273138
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.46kg, 240 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Sociology
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    Caste, Knowledge, and Power investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuing of these oppressive practices. The author situates the domination and subordination in the domain of knowledge production in India not just in the emergence of colonial modernity but in the formation of colonial–Brahminical modernity. It engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial–Brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual hierarchy) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge.

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    ‘… the rare tour de force from which virtually any historian of science, as well as scholars of South Asian studies, religion, and colonial history, can learn.’

    Nikhil Joseph Dharan Source: Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society

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