Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

Anthropological Quarterly | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

Nicholas B. Dirks. 2001. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

A richly researched account of the political structures (and historical structuring) of the "caste system" in India, Nicholas B. Dirks' Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India is both more and less than an argument about the solidification of caste under British colonialism and the ethnographic imagination. On the surface, Dirks argues that caste is not the unchanging, historically frozen structure that we present it as (though it is not always clear who this "we" is). Through extensive archival work-that both ...

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