Dipankar Gupta

Caste in question: Identity Or hierarchy?/ Gupta, Dipankar - SAGE, 2004.

Cover; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: The certitudes of caste: When identity trumps hierarchy; 1 --
Caste panchayats and the policing of marriage in Haryana: Enforcing kinship and territorial exogamy; 2 --
'We (Yadavs) are a caste of politicians': Caste and modern politics in a north Indian town; 3 --
Jains, caste and hierarchy in north Gujarat; 4 --
Hierarchy, difference and the caste system: A study of rural Bihar; 5 --
Replication or dissent? Culture and institutions among 'Untouchable' Scheduled Castes in Karnataka.

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Social Science