Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present
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超越种姓：南亚过去和现在的身份和权力
DOI：
10.1163/9789004254855
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发表时间：
2013
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S. Guha
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作者：
S. Guha
今天，“种姓”几乎被普遍认为是一种古老而不变的印度教制度，完全由一种根深蒂固的宗教意识形态保存下来。然而，这个词本身是从16世纪的欧洲进口的。这本书追踪了在这个标签下合并的实践的悠久历史，并展示了它们与社会和政治权力变化模式的联系。它将种姓视为一种复杂的种族形式，并解释了为什么它在南亚的非印度教统治者和非印度教社区中持续存在。
'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.