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Caste, marriage, and inequality : essays on North and South India
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- Creator
- Pauline Kolenda
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jaipur : Rawat Publications, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9788170337997, 8170337992
- OCLC
- ocm53361224
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Living the levirate: the mating of an untouchable Chuhra widow -- 'Untouchable' Chuhras through their humor: 'equalizing' martial kin through teasing, pretence, and farce -- Micro-ideology and micro-utopia in Khalapur: changes in the discourse on caste over thirty years -- Fewer deaths, fewer births: decline of child mortality in a UP village -- Memories of a Brahman agraharam in Travancore -- The Tamil Brahman family as affected by out-migration and modern occupations -- Grandsons of the Shastrigals: migration and identity transformation among Dharmika Brahmans of Travancore -- Foxes, lions, and bears: the circulation of landownership in southernmost Tamilnadu -- The joint family household in rural Rajasthan: ecological, cultural and demographic conditions for its occurrence -- Women as tribute, women as flower: images of 'woman' in weddings in north and south India -- Sibling relations and marriage practices: a comparison of north, central, and south India -- Caste in India since independence -- How should we think about inequality? or no tears for losers -- Demonizing Dalits: scouring the sources on the Sikh pogrom