Prakash (Hrsg.) Shah

Western Foundations of the Caste System

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This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions of Indian social reality. The dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' that we have today are results of originally Christian themes and questions. The authors of this collection show how this hypothesis can be applied beyond South Asia to the diasporic cultures that have made a home in Western countries, and how the inheritance of caste studies a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Pathan, Sufiya (Hrsg.) / Fárek, Martin (Hrsg.) / Jalki, Dunkin (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-38761-1
EAN: 9783319387611
Produktnummer: 23725831
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 10'887 KB

Über den Autor

Martin Fárek is the Head of the Department for the Study of Religions, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Dunkin Jalki is the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities and the Social Sciences, SDM PG College, Ujire, India. Sufiya Pathan is Associate Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities and the Social Sciences, SDM PG College, Ujire, India. Prakash Shah is a Reader in Culture and Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.