Caste, Culture and Hegemony Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

SAGE India

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Contents

Introduction: The Historiography of Caste in Bengal

Caste and Power

Competing Discourses in Colonial Bengal

Caste and Popular Religion

Revolt Against Hierarchy and Its Limits

Caste and Social Reform

The Case of Widow-Remarriage

Caste and Gender

Social Mobility and Status of Women

Caste and the Territorial Nation

Hindu Mahasabha, Partition and The Dalit

Conclusion

Index

Independent Customer Reviews

The book is an experimental illustration of how one can use information which is available, obviously to the credit of the author’s insightful probing of the questions for which he seems to have answers for all. It makes one raise more questions and gives one ideas to begin the thought process. A “must read” book because of its interdisciplinary nature.

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Contributors:

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay is Senior Lecturer and Head of the History Programme, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include the social and political history of modern India, with special reference to Bengal. He has previously published a number of books including Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal, 1872–1937; Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872–1937; and Bengal: Rethinking History, Essays in Historiography (co-edited). He is also the author of numerous articles on caste, culture and nationalist politics in colonial India that have appeared in many journals and edited volumes.