Robb, Peter text ii New York Delhi Oxford University Press 1997 1995 1997 monographic eng

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ix, 354 pages ; 22 cm. 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 edited by Peter Robb. Includes bibliographical references. Race awareness South Asia History Ethnicity South Asia History South Asia Race relations History 305.800954 0195642686 Ayesha Abed Library BD-DhAAL 220307 20220307133043.0 37989