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Caste, Culture and Hegemony

Name: Caste, Culture and Hegemony
ISBN: 9781040756317

Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,

English
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Caste, Culture and Hegemony

Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay,

About this book

This book looks at how the caste system has withstood resistance from below and survived the challenge of colonial modernity. By using empirical data from Bengal, it explores how Hindu caste society has sought to maintain its cultural hegemony and structural cohesion by frustrating reformist endeavours, by co-opting challenges by the Dalit and by marginalizing internal dissidence during the colonial period. It draws on case studies of early cultural encounters between 'high' Brahmanical tradition and the more egalitarian 'popular' religious cults of the lower castes. It also examines the Hindu 'Partition' campaign, which tended to appropriate dalit autonomous politics and made Hinduism the foundation of an emergent Indian national identity.

The book will be of use to scholars and researchers of history, political science, religion, minority studies, gender studies and South Asian studies.

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