The civility of indifference: on domesticating ethnicity/
F.G. Bailey
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- xvi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
1. The Temple Entry Act. In the Beginning. A Hundred Years Forward -- 2. The Way of the Distillers. The Fantasy of Infinite Cooperation. The Distillers as Social Climbers. What the Panos Could Not Do -- 3. Calculated Restraint. What Was the Goal? Why Shiva's Temple? What Was the Arena? -- 4. Gupte Bisoi and Bali Sahani. The Edge of Violence. The Background. Split Minds: Paranoia and Pragmatism. What Interests Were Different People Serving? Facade and Reality -- 5. Making a Living. Marginal People. Panos as Middlemen. The Boida Outlaws. Necessity and Rationality -- 6. The Sources of Rationality. Discrete Interactions. Habitual Ethnicity in Bisipara. The Nature of Moral Feelings. Pervasive Pragmatism -- 7. The Bottom Line. The Quiet Revolution. The Culture of Moderation. Government from Below. Penny-wise Politics -- 8. The Civility of Indifference.
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Racism Social conditions Ethnic relations Ethnicity Apathy