Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city
- Title
- Blended boundaries : caste, class, and shifting faces of 'Hinduness' in a North Indian city / Kathinka Frøystad.
- Published by
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 304 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Study with reference to Kānpur (India).
- Subject
- Hinduism and politics > India > Kānpur
- Communalism > India > Kānpur
- Hindus > India > Kānpur
- Muslims > India > Kānpur
- Communalism
- Ethnic relations > Political aspects
- Hinduism and politics
- Hindus
- Muslims
- Hindu
- Oberschicht
- Klassenbewusstsein
- Hindu
- Klassenbewusstsein
- Oberschicht
- Kānpur (India) > Ethnic relations > Political aspects
- India > Kānpur
- Kanpur
- Kanpur
- Contents
- 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
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.