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008			230428s2023 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a 2023937656
020			_a9780198896715
040			_cCUS
082			_a305.5122 _bJOD/O
100			_aJodhka, Surinder S. _eEditor
245	0	4	_aThe Oxford Handbook of Caste
264		1	_aNew York: _bOxford University Press, _c2023.
300			_axx, 660p.
490	0		_aOxford handbooks
505			_a1.Conceptual Frames 2. History, State and The Shaping of Caste 3. Caste and the Religious Realm 4. Local Power and the Political process 5. Community Profile and Regional Trajectories
520			_a"'Caste' invokes tradition, a remnant of the ancient past. According to this popular view, caste was a closed system of hierarchy and it was/is unique to South Asia. It presumably tied everyone to the social collective that they were born into, with no individual choice of occupation, mobility, or marriage. Privileges and statuses were all pre-given, with no one ever questioning the social order. This notion of caste also claimed that the source of its origin and legitimacy lay in the religious cosmos of the Hindus, who practised it as a matter of dharma or faith. The traditional order thus persisted without any change and reproduced itself for ages in the spatial universe of its innumerable village communities"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650			_aSociology _vCaste _932754
700	1		_aNaudet, Jules _eEditor _932755
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
999			_c215338 _d215338