PDF-(BOOK)-Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.

When thinking of India it is hard not to think of caste In academic and common parlance alike caste has become a central symbol for India marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is in fact neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition caste is a modern phenomenonthe product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming Indias diverse forms of social identity and organizationDirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives from the commentaries of an eighteenthcentury Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the latenineteenthcentury census from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentiethcentury Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century focusing in particular on the emergence of castebased movements that have threatened nationalist consensus Castes of Mind is an ambitious book written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics. 2600 B.C. – A.D. 550. 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The caste system divides society into various caste groups with a well-developed life of their own. Membership of the group is determined by birth.. de-. ritualization. of caste.. A large part of the support system of caste has collapsed due to this erosion of rituality. Consequently, . caste now survives as a kinship-based cultural community but operates in a different newly emergent system of social stratification. . In some cases their boundaries co-terminate with those of the respective Varna in a region they belong to. . What is more, . inter-caste marriages across different ritual strata, even often crossing the self acknowledged Varna boundaries.