Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiv
5. Part One: THE “INVENTION” OF CASTE
6. One. Introduction: The Modernity of Caste 3
7. Two. Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea 19
8. Three. The Ethnographic State 43
9. Part Two: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE
10. Four. The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime 63
11. Five. The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive 81
12. Six. The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule 107
13. Part Three: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE
14. Seven. The Conversion of Caste 127
15. Eight. The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom 149
16. Nine. The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste 173
17. Ten. The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule 198
18. Part Four: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS
19. Eleven. Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism 231
20. Twelve. The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi 255
21. Thirteen. Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste 275
22. Fourteen. Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament 297
23. Coda. The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History 303
24. Notes 317
25. Index 359