Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city

Title
  1. Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city / Kathinka Frøystad.
Published by
  1. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Author
  1. Frøystad, Kathinka, 1966-

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Description
  1. xxi, 304 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Study with reference to Kānpur (India).
Subject
  1. Hinduism and politics > India > Kānpur
  2. Communalism > India > Kānpur
  3. Hindus > India > Kānpur
  4. Muslims > India > Kānpur
  5. Communalism
  6. Ethnic relations > Political aspects
  7. Hinduism and politics
  8. Hindus
  9. Muslims
  10. Hindu
  11. Oberschicht
  12. Klassenbewusstsein
  13. Hindu
  14. Klassenbewusstsein
  15. Oberschicht
  16. Kānpur (India) > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
  17. India > Kānpur
  18. Kanpur
  19. Kanpur
Contents
  1. 1. Introduction -- 2. setting, the people, and the fieldwork -- 3. At home : master-servant relations and upper-caste superiority -- 4. Outside : 'good' people and 'small' people -- 5. Social ties : a web of 'good' and upper-caste people -- 6. Ties with Muslims -- 7. 1992 : essentializing and foregrounding Muslims -- 8. 1997 : essentializing and foregrounding Dalits -- 9. Conclusion : blended boundaries and shifting politicization.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.