This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class. Singh demystifies caste based on a comparative analysis between a Weberian and Marxian understanding of power. He rejects Max Weber's account of caste as rooted in culture which Weber saw as analytically distinct from the economic and political power. In contrast, Singh offers a Marxist analysis of caste as a matter of land (means of production) and labor (social relations of production). Extending his critique of the cultural understanding of caste, Singh examines one of the most prominent accounts of caste as a religious phenomenon specific to Hinduism. The book aims to show the intrinsic interconnectedness of class and caste.
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Table of contents
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- Front Matter
- 1. Ambedkar: Castes in India
- 2. Ambedkar: Annihilation of Caste
- 3. Ambedkar: What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables
- 4. What Gandhi Says About Ambedkarand Caste
- 5. Republic of Caste
- 6. Caste and Class in Indian Society and History: Weberian Legacy
- 7. Caste in Subaltern Studies: Brahmanical, Burgeois, Bohemian
- 8. Inequalities Within Caste and Kin: What Has That to Do with Religion?
- 9. Gandhi in South Africa: Questions of Caste and Race
- 10. Unjustified Critique from the Right
- 11. Annihilation of Caste Is Not Annihilation of Hinduism: The Story of Indentured Indians in South Africa
- 12. Theory of Caste: Material Conditions, Ideas, History
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