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on caste and class in the Indian village (the material-social roots of caste) | ||||||
(in chronological order) Peter Mayer, "Inventing Village Tradition: The Late 19th Century Origins of the North Indian 'Jajmani System,'" Modern Asian Studies, 27, 2 (1993) Irfan Habib, "Caste in Indian History" (March 1983), "The Peasant in Indian History," "Forms of Class Struggle in Mughal India," "Marx's Perception of India," and other essays reprinted in Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perspective, Tulika Books, 1995 Harold A. Gould, �The Hindu Jajmani System: A Case of Economic Particularism� (1977), in Schmidt, Scott, Lande, Guasti (editors), Friends, Followers, and Factions, University of California Press, 1977 Nirmul Kumar Bose, The Structure of Hindu Society, Orient Longman, 1975 Jan Berman, Patronage and Exploitation: Changing Agrarian Relations in South Gujarat, India, University of Califronia Press, 1974 David Mandelbaum, Society in India, Popular Prakashan 1998 (University of California Press, 1970) Pauline Kolenda, �Toward a Model of the Hindu Jajmani System� (Spring 1963), and other essays in Caste, Cult and Hierarchy: Essays on the Culture of India (Folklore Institute, 1983), plus her Caste in Contemporary India: Beyond Organic Solidarity (Rawat Publications, 1997) E. R. Leach, �Introduction: What Should We Mean by Caste?� and other papers collected in Leach (editor), Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan, Cambridge UP, 1960 Fredrik Barth, "The System of Social Stratification in Swat, North Pakistan," in E. R. Leach above (1960)--very good explanation of the material basis of caste Adrian C. Mayer, Caste and Kinship in Central India: A Village and Its Region, University of California Press, 1960 McKim Marriott, Caste Ranking and Community Structure in Five Regions of India and Pakistan, Deccan College Monograph Series, 1960 Thomas O. Beidelman, A Comparative Analysis of the Jajmani System, J. J. Augustin, 1959 S. C. Dube, Indian Village, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955, plus his Indian Society, National Book Trust, India, 1990 McKim Marriott (editor), Village India: Studies in the Little Community, University of Chicago Press, 1955 W. H. Wiser, The Hindu Jajmani System, Lucknow Publishing House, 1958 (1936) |
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See this useful, comprehensive bibliographic essay on The Agrarian History of South Asia. | ||||||
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