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Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city

Title
Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city / Kathinka Frøystad.
Author
Frøystad, Kathinka, 1966-
Publication
New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description
xxi, 304 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Study with reference to Kānpur (India).
Subject
  • Hinduism and politics > India > Kānpur
  • Communalism > India > Kānpur
  • Hindus > India > Kānpur
  • Muslims > India > Kānpur
  • Communalism
  • Ethnic relations > Political aspects
  • Hinduism and politics
  • Hindus
  • Muslims
  • Hindu
  • Oberschicht
  • Klassenbewusstsein
  • Hindu
  • Klassenbewusstsein
  • Oberschicht
  • Kānpur (India) > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
  • India > Kānpur
  • Kanpur
  • Kanpur
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. setting, the people, and the fieldwork -- 3. At home : master-servant relations and upper-caste superiority -- 4. Outside : 'good' people and 'small' people -- 5. Social ties : a web of 'good' and upper-caste people -- 6. Ties with Muslims -- 7. 1992 : essentializing and foregrounding Muslims -- 8. 1997 : essentializing and foregrounding Dalits -- 9. Conclusion : blended boundaries and shifting politicization.
ISBN
  • 0195664000
  • 9780195664003
LCCN
  • 2005386459
  • 9780195664003
OCLC
  • ocm62534110
  • 62534110
  • SCSB-8979752
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library