The concept of race in South Asia /
Peter Robb.
- Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995.
- ix, 354 p. ; 22 cm.
- SOAS studies on South Asia : understandings and perspectives series .
- SOAS studies on South Asia. .
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction: South Asia and the concept of race / Peter Robb -- 2. The language of historians and the morphology of history / Kenneth Ballhatchet -- 3. Concepts of race in the Mahabharata and Ramayana / John Brockington -- 4. Is there a Tamil 'race'? / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam -- 5. Racial identities and politics in early modern Sri Lanka / John D. Rogers -- 6. Caste and 'race' in the colonial ethnography of India / Susan Bayly -- 7. Race, caste and tribe in Central India: The early origins of Indian anthropometry / Crispin Bates -- 8. Martial Gurkhas: The persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' / Lionel Caplan -- 9. The effeminate and the masculine: Nationalism and the concept of race in colonial Bengal / Indira Chowdhury-Sengupta -- 10. Race and pan-Islam in Iqbal's thought / Javed Majeed -- 11. The ideas of the Hindu race in the writings of Hindu nationalist ideologues in the 1920s and 1930s: A concept between two cultures / Christophe Jaffrelot.
0195637674 0195642686
96900195
South Asia--History.--Race relations
DS430 / .C647 1995
954.004 / CON
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Introduction: South Asia and the concept of race / Peter Robb -- 2. The language of historians and the morphology of history / Kenneth Ballhatchet -- 3. Concepts of race in the Mahabharata and Ramayana / John Brockington -- 4. Is there a Tamil 'race'? / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam -- 5. Racial identities and politics in early modern Sri Lanka / John D. Rogers -- 6. Caste and 'race' in the colonial ethnography of India / Susan Bayly -- 7. Race, caste and tribe in Central India: The early origins of Indian anthropometry / Crispin Bates -- 8. Martial Gurkhas: The persistence of a British military discourse on 'race' / Lionel Caplan -- 9. The effeminate and the masculine: Nationalism and the concept of race in colonial Bengal / Indira Chowdhury-Sengupta -- 10. Race and pan-Islam in Iqbal's thought / Javed Majeed -- 11. The ideas of the Hindu race in the writings of Hindu nationalist ideologues in the 1920s and 1930s: A concept between two cultures / Christophe Jaffrelot.
0195637674 0195642686
96900195
South Asia--History.--Race relations
DS430 / .C647 1995
954.004 / CON