Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance by Assa Doron

Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance

Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacif

Assa Doron

216 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa...

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