Western Foundations of the Caste System
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 sch
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Martin Fárek • Dunkin Jalki • Sufiya Pathan • Prakash Shah Editors
Western Foundations of the Caste System
Editors Martin Fárek Faculty of Arts and Philosophy University of Pardubice Pardubice, Czech Republic Sufiya Pathan CIRHS, SDMES Ujire, Karnataka, India
ISBN 978-3-319-38760-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-38761-1
Dunkin Jalki CIRHS, SDMES Ujire, Karnataka, India Prakash Shah Department of Law Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-38761-1 (eBook)
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Acknowledgements
First of all, we are indebted to S. N. Balagangadhara, our outstanding teacher and friend. What binds all these chapters together is that they all bear directly on, and have been inspired by his scholarship and the research programme he initiated. We would like to thank all the contributors, who each not only offered their extensive expertise and important research but also joined hands with us in undertaking all other tasks a volume of this kind requires including reviewing chapters, proofreading and index preparation. The idea for this book was conceived in a conference organised by Prakash Shah in London in April 2014 where he, Martin Fárek, Dunkin Jalki and Marianne Keppens presented early drafts of the papers that are part of this volume. Several of these papers were discussed during workshops in Bengaluru, Ghent and Pardubice, and the final versions presented here owe a great deal to the careful listeners of those workshops and conf
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