Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv PART ONE: THE ``INVENTION'' OF CASTE 1(60) Introduction: The Modernity of Caste 3(16) Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea 19(24) The Ethnographic State 43(18) PART TWO: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE 61(64) The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime 63(18) The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive 81(26) The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule 107(18) PART THREE: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE 125(104) The Conversion of Caste 127(22) The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom 149(24) The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of Caste 173(25) The Enumeration of Caste: Antropology as Colonial Rule 198(31) PART FOUR: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS 229(88) Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism 231(24) The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi 255(20) Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste 275(22) Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament 297(20) Coda The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History 303(14) Notes 317(42) Index 359