Beyond Caste - Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

Beyond Caste traces the many changes South Asian society through the centuries and shows how 'caste' should be understood as a politically inflected and complex form of ethnic stratification that persisted across religious affiliations.

About the author

Sumit Guha, Ph.D. (1981), University of Cambridge, is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous books include Environment and Ethnicity in India, c.1200-1991 (1999) and Health and Population in South Asia from Earliest Times to the Present (2001).

Product details

• Authors: Sumit Guha
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2013
• EAN: 9789004249189
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24918-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology