Dirks, Nicholas B.

Castes of mind : colonialism and the making of modern India/ Nicholas B. Dirks - Delhi: Permanent Black, 2018. - 372 pages

Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics; Includes index.

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