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The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 4, Part 3: Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Frank F. Conlon,Susan Bayly +1 more
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The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition
TL;DR: The ascetic self in text and history: as discussed by the authors The Ascetic Self in Text and History: 2. Asceticism of work: Simone Weil 3. The asceticist of action: The Bhagavad-gita and Yoga-sutras 4. The ascent of the asceticism: Tantra 5. The ascendency of the Middle Way 6.
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What makes people who they are? Pandit networks and the problem of livelihoods in early modern Western India
TL;DR: The question "Who is a Brahman?" was the focus of sustained and intense debate among the many small and competing Brahman communities of western India's Konkan littoral during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The social worth of scribes: Brahmins, Kāyasthas and the social order in early modern India
TL;DR: The survival of K atriyas in the modern age of the Kaliyuga was a question of critical significance to pandit intellectuals, dividing Brahmins in the Maratha regions from some of their fellow pandits in Banaras, and shaping their wider conception of the nature of the social order in their own times as mentioned in this paper.
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The Indexical Trace: A Visual Interpretation of the History of Fingerprinting in Colonial India
TL;DR: In this paper, the history of fingerprinting in colonial India within a larger system of visual technology used by the British in institutions such as prisons is discussed. And the authors argue for the recognition of a visual culture of fingerprints that was key to the practice's proliferation as a science.
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Partition and the politics of the joint family in nineteenth-century north India
TL;DR: Using nineteenth-century case law, legal and social theory, and ethnography, the authors examined colonial attempts to coalesce complex relational identities into individual and collective ones using relational identities.