Castes of mind : colonialism and the making of modern India - Dirks, Nicholas B. (Permanent Black, Delhi, 2018)
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.
Keywords: Caste; Caste India