TY - BOOK AU - Seneviratne, H.L., ed. TI - Identity, consciousness and the past: forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka SN - 0195640012 U1 - 305.85405493 PY - 1999/// CY - Culcutta PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ethnicity KW - Ethnology KW - Historiography KW - Social classes N1 - Identity and the conflation of past and present / H.L. Seneviratne -- History in the making / Elizabeth Nissan -- Three Dispositions towards the past / E. Valentine Daniel -- The myth of the human sacrifice / Gananath Obeyesekere -- History, biography and poetry at the Tanjavur Nāyaka Court / V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman -- The invention of caste / Nicholas Dirks -- On royalty, caste and temples in Srilanka and South India / Nur Yalman -- Cultures of rule, communities of resistance / Rosalind O'Hanlon -- Indian untouchable texts of resistance / Michael B. Schwartz ER -