The concept of race in South Asia /

The concept of race in South Asia / edited by Peter Robb. - New York ; Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1997. - ix, 354 pages ; 22 cm. - SOAS studies on South Asia : understandings and perspectives series .

Includes bibliographical references.

1 Introduction: South Asia and the concept of race (starting p. 1) / Peter Robb --
2 The language of historians and the morphology of history (starting p. 77) / Kenneth Ballhatchet --
3 Concepts of race in the Mahabharata and Ramayana (starting p. 97) / John Brockington --
4 Is there a Tamil 'race'? (starting p. 109) / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam --
5 Racial identities and politics in early modern Sri Lanka (starting p. 146) / John D. Rogers --
6 Caste and 'race' in the colonial ethnography of India (starting p. 165) / Susan Bayly --
7 Race, caste and tribe in Central India: The early origins of Indian anthropometry (starting p. 219) / Crispin Bates --
8 Martial Gurkhas: The persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' (starting p. 260) / Lionel Caplan --
9 The effeminate and the masculine: Nationalism and the concept of race in colonial Bengal (starting p. 282) / Indira Chowdhury-Sengupta --
10 Race and pan-Islam in Iqbal's thought (starting p. 304) / Javed Majeed --
11 The ideas of the Hindu race in the writings of Hindu nationalist ideologues in the 1920s and 1930s: A concept between two cultures (starting p. 327) / Christophe Jaffrelot

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