Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India
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The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the caste scholarship.
Most prominently, it questions the assumptions of modernization theory that became internalized in the very defin...Read more
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The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the caste scholarship.
Most prominently, it questions the assumptions of modernization theory that became internalized in the very defin...Read more
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