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The concept of race in South Asia /

by Robb, Peter (Peter G.).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SOAS studies on South Asia: Publisher: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: ix, 354 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0195637674; 0195642686.Subject(s): South Asia -- Race relations -- History
Contents:
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.
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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.

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