Elites In South Asia Ed By Edmund Leach And Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee Mit Kt Skizze U Tab

Author : Edmund Leach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521077101
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Elites in South Asia written by Edmund Leach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. The problems delineated are by no means peculiar to the Indian subcontinent. Nearly all the developing countries of contemporary Asia, Africa and Latin America are entangled with their post-colonial heritage and the history of political elitism in all these countries has been similar. The papers consider who were members of the elites, in the sense of 'men at the top'. They enquire how they got there, how they continued to recruit themselves and what was their relationship with the British. The contributors, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians, present each other with forms of evidence which are unfamiliar and, in sum, result in a study which destroys many of the conventional clichés of colonial historians.