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Identity, consciousness and the past : forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka
- Title
- Identity, consciousness and the past : forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka / edited by H.L. Seneviratne.
- Publication
- Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Seneviratne, H. L., 1934-
- Description
- viii, 207 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "These nine lucidly written essays extend the frontiers of understanding between history and anthropology. The essays are grouped into two parts. The first part, 'Myth, History and Ethnicity', focuses on passions of ethnic and national identity as these impinge on how the past is imagined. The essays in this section analyse how the past is continually reconstructed by the events, perceptions and interests of the present." "The second part, 'Caste, Kingship and Colonialism', consists of a set of essays which try to understand the caste order, its links with kingship, and the manner in which colonial domination defined and redefined this relationship." "Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, these essays will be valued by anthropologists and historians."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Social analysis (Adelaide, S.A.)
- Subject
- Ethnology > India
- Ethnology > Sri Lanka
- Caste > India
- Caste > Sri Lanka
- Ethnicity > India
- Ethnicity > Sri Lanka
- Caste
- Ethnicity
- Ethnology
- Historiography
- Ethnizität
- Geschichte
- Kaste
- Kastenstelsel
- Etnisch bewustzijn
- Identité collective > Inde
- Identité collective > Sri Lanka
- Ethnologie > Inde
- Ethnologie > Sri Lanka
- Castes > Inde
- Castes > Sri Lanka
- Ethnicité > Sri Lanka
- Classes sociales > Sri Lanka
- Classes sociales > Inde
- Ethnicité > Inde
- India > Historiography
- Sri Lanka > Historiography
- India
- Sri Lanka
- Indien
- Sri Lanka
- Inde > Civilisation
- Sri Lanka > Civilisation
- Note
- "This is a revised edition of volume 25 (September 1989) of Social Analysis, a Journal of Cultural and Social Practice ... two of the essays of the original volume ... were left out"--P. [vii].
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-207).
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Myth, history and ethnic identity. 1. Identity and the conflation of past and present / H.L. Seneviratne ; 2. History in the making : Anuradhapura and the Sinhala Buddhist Nation / Elizabeth Nissan ; 3. Three Dispositions towards the past : one Sinhala, two Tamil / E. Valentine Daniel ; 4. The myth of the human sacrifice : history, story and debate in a Buddhist chronicle / Gananath Obeyesekere -- Pt. 2. Caste, kingship and colonialism. 5. History, biography and poetry at the Tanjavur Nāyaka Court / V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman ; 6. The invention of caste : civil society in Colonial India / Nicholas Dirks ; 7. On royalty, caste and temples in Sri Lanka and South India / Nur Yalman ; 8. Cultures of rule, communities of resistance : gender, discourse and tradition in recent South Asian historiographies / Rosalind O'Hanlon ; 9. Indian untouchable texts of resistance : symbolic domination and historical knowledge / Michael B. Schwartz.
- ISBN
- 0195640012
- 9780195640014
- LCCN
- 97175770
- OCLC
- ocm37130224
- 37130224
- SCSB-14439400
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library