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Ambedkar views that definitions of castes given by Émile Senart [5] John Nesfield, H. H. Risley and Dr Ketkar as incomplete or incorrect by itself and all have missed the central point in the mechanism of the caste system. Senart's "idea of pollution" is a characteristic of caste in so far as caste has a religious flavour.
Caste, Politics and the Raj: Bengal 1872–1937 (1990) Caste, Protest and Identity in Colonial India: The Namasudras of Bengal, 1872–1947 (1997; Second Edition 2011) Caste, Culture and Hegemony: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal (2004) From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India (2004; Second Revised and Enlarged Edition ...
The caste system consists of two different concepts, varna and jati, which may be regarded as different levels of analysis of this system. The caste system as it exists today is thought to be the result of developments during the collapse of the Mughal era and the rise of the British colonial government in India.
Download QR code; Print/export ... He is known for his studies of the caste system in South India. [1] ... 1983 (new, enlarged edition, Oxford University Press, 1987).
H. H. Risley (1851–1911). As time passed after the 1857 rebellion, British ethnographic studies and their resultant categorisations were embodied in numerous official publications and became an essential part of the British administrative mechanism, and of those categorisations it was caste that was regarded to be, in the words of Herbert Hope Risley, "the cement that holds together the ...
Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is Louis Dumont's treatise on the Indian caste system. [1] It analyses the caste hierarchy and the ascendancy tendency of the lower castes to follow the habits of the higher castes. This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by MN Srinivas. [2]