| Publisher |
MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS |
| Publication Year |
2004 |
| ISBN-13 |
9788173044175 |
| ISBN-10 |
8173044171 |
| Binding |
Hardcover |
| Number of Pages |
354 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Dimensions (Cms) |
20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 |
| Weight (grms) |
594 |
Historicity, in the form of narratives accounting for the present position of castes, is central to social identity in Saurashtra. In these accounts, competition and collaboration both emerge as central themes. Multi-caste villages offer prosperity, at the cost of the independence enjoyed by peasants in peripheral single-caste villages. hierarchy emerges here, as a paradigm of the discourse that seeks to establish order in and among the various narratives.
Harald Tambs-Lyche
Harald Tambs-Lyche studied anthropology in Bergen and at SOAS, London. He has worked on Indian immigrants in Britain (London Patidars, 1980), on the social history of Saurashtra, India (Power, Profit and Poetry, 1997) and on its contemporary social organization (The Good Country, 2004). He has edited The Feminine Sacred in South Asia (1999), and, with Marine Carrin, People of the Jangal: Reformulating Identities and Adaptations in Crisis (2008). With Marine Carrin he also wrote on Scandinavian missionaries to the Santals, An Encounter of Peripheries (2008).
Harald Tambs-Lyche
MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS