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Identity, consciousness and the past : forging of caste and community in India and Sri Lanka
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- Creator
- edited by H.L. Seneviratne
- Included Title
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- Social analysis (Adelaide, S.A.)
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- viii, 207 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195640012, 9780195640014
- OCLC
- ocm37130224
- "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].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [192]-207).
- Identity and the conflation of past and present / H.L. Seneviratne -- History in the making / Elizabeth Nissan -- Three Dispositions towards the past / E. Valentine Daniel -- The myth of the human sacrifice / Gananath Obeyesekere -- History, biography and poetry at the Tanjavur Nāyaka Court / V. Narayana Rao and D. Shulman -- The invention of caste / Nicholas Dirks -- On royalty, caste and temples in Srilanka and South India / Nur Yalman -- Cultures of rule, communities of resistance / Rosalind O'Hanlon -- Indian untouchable texts of resistance / Michael B. Schwartz