The concept of race in South Asia / edited by Peter Robb.

Contributor(s):

Robb, Peter

Material type: Text

TextSeries: SOAS studies on South Asia : understandings and perspectives seriesPublication details: New York ; Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: ix, 354 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

0195642686

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DDC classification:

305.800954 21

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection	Ayesha Abed Library Akbar Ali Khan Collection	305.800954 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not For Loan		3010037989

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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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