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The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
List of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Editors and Contributors
- Introduction--Studying Caste: Conceptual Currents and Emergent Perspectives
- SECTION I: CONCEPTUAL FRAMES
- Editors' Introduction
- 1: Roland Lardinois: The Idea of Caste through the Ages: Concept, Words, and Things
- 2: Martin Fuchs: Hierarchy
- 3: Peter Mayer: The Jajmani System
- 4: Carol Upadhya: Caste and Capital
- 5: Jules Naudet: Caste and Class
- 6: Janaki Abraham: Caste and Kinship
- SECTION II: HISTORY, STATE, AND THE SHAPING OF CASTE
- Editors' Introduction
- 7: Harald Tambs- Lyche: Caste and Kingship
- 8: Dilip Menon: Transformations of Caste in Colonial India
- 9: Leigh Denault: Census, Caste Enumeration, and the British Legacy
- 10: Julie Marquet: Caste Disputes in Colonial India: Conflicts and the Legal Shaping of Caste
- 11: Gautam Bhatia: Caste and the Law
- 12: Ashwini Deshpande: Reservations and Affirmative Action
- 13: S. Anandhi and Kalpana Kannabiran: Backwardness
- SECTION III: CASTE AND THE RELIGIOUS REALM
- Editors' Introduction
- 14: Mathieu Claveyrolas: Hinduism and Caste System
- 15: Raphaël Voix: Hindu Sects and Caste in South Asia
- 16: George Kunnath: Sanskritization: The Inheritance of an Ideational Category
- 17: Joel Lee: Caste and Hindutva
- 18: Julien Levesque: Caste among Muslims in North India and Pakistan
- SECTION IV: LOCAL POWER AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS
- Editors' Introduction
- 19: Nicolas Martin: The Dominant Caste
- 20: Rajeshwari Deshpande: Caste Associations and the Post-Mandal Politics of Caste
- 21: Christophe Jaffrelot: Do Indians Vote Their Caste or Their Jati, or Their Class, or . . .?
- 22: Lucia Michelutti: Caste, Patronage, and Criminalization of Politics
- SECTION V: COMMUNITY PROFILES AND REGIONAL TRAJECTORIES
- Editors' Introduction
- 23: Ramnarayan Rawat: How to Write New Histories of Caste
- 24: Haripriya Narasimhan: The Brahmins of Urban India
- 25: Ujithra Ponniah: Agarwal Banias of Delhi
- 26: Zoe E. Headley: Caste Logos: A View from Tamil Nadu
- 27: Sarbani Bandhopadhyay: The Invisibility of Caste in Bengal
- 28: Surinder S. Jodhka: Caste in Punjab
- 29: David N. Gellner: Caste, Ethnicity, and the State in Nepal
- SECTION VI: DALIT LIVES AND PREDICAMENTS OF CHANGE
- Editors' Introduction
- 30: Anand Teltumbde: Ambedkar's Legacy
- 31: Suryakant Waghmore: Changing Dynamics of Untouchability
- 32: Hugo Gorringe and Karthikeyan Damodaran: Dalit Movements in India
- 33: Harish Wankhede: The Mahars and Dalit Movement of Maharashtra
- 34: Eva-Maria Hardtmann: Dalit Activism and Transnational Mobilization
- 35: Deepa S. Reddy: Caste, Race, and Ethnicity
- 36: Jai Prasad: Caste and Tribe
- 37: Kalpana Kannabiran: Denotified Communities
- SECTION VII: EMERGING ENTANGLEMENTS OF CASTE
- Editors' Introduction
- 38: Guilhem Cassan: The Economics of Caste
- 39: Ajantha Subramanian: Caste and Merit
- 40: Divya Vaid: Caste and Mobility
- 41: Pushpesh Kumar: Caste and Gender
- 42: Radha Modi: Caste and the Diaspora
- Name Index
- Subject Index
About the author
Surinder S. Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His recent publications include India's Villages in the 21st Century: Revisits and Revisions (co-edited with Edward Simpson, OUP, 2019); Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality (co-edited with Jules Naudet, OUP, 2019); A Handbook of Rural India (Orient Blackswan, 2018); Contested Hierarchies, Persisting Influence: Caste and Power in Twenty-First Century India (co-edited with James Manor, Orient Blackswan, 2018); Inequality in Capitalist Societies (co-authored with Boike Rehbien and Jesse Souza, Routledge, 2018); The Indian Middle-Class (co-authored with Aseem Prakash, OUP, 2016); Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge, 2015/2018); and Caste: Oxford India Short Introductions (OUP, 2012). He is among the first recipients of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists for the year 2012.
Jules Naudet is a CNRS Associate Research Professor at the Center for South Asian Studies, EHESS, Paris, and a CASBS Fellow at Stanford University (2021-2022). He has authored Stepping into the Elite (OUP, 2018), which revisits the classical question of the experience of moving from one class to another, co-edited Justifier l'ordre social (with Christophe Jaffrelot; University Press of France, 2013), and co-authored Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres (with Serge Paugam, Bruno Cousin, and Camila Giorgetti; Le Seuil, 2017), a comparative analysis of the representations of the poor by the inhabitants of upper-class neighbourhoods in Paris, Delhi, and São Paulo. Naudet is a member of the editorial board of SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal) and the co-editor-in-chief of La Vie des Idées/ Books & Ideas, an online journal hosted by the Collège de France. He co-edits the book series Exploring India's Elite with Surinder S. Jodhka.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of caste, capturing emerging research trends, imaginations, and the lived realities of caste.
