BOOKS by Susan Bayly

Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age more books like this

by Susan Bayly, Gordon Johnson (Editor), Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor)

The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an ...

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Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age: Vietnam, India and Beyond more books like this

by Susan Bayly

This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories is based on anthropological and historical research in Vietnam and India, two great Asian societies with contrasting experiences of empire, decolonisation and the rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist world system. Building on the author's long-standing research ...

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Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900 more books like this

by Susan Bayly

South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings uses a powerful combination of oral, literary and archival evidence to investigate the social and religious world of those large and influential groups of South ...

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