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The Ruling Caste

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466830018
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Caste written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reign Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build. The Ruling Caste principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. The Ruling Caste is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.

Caste

Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0593230272
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Caste written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.

The Ruling Caste

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374530808
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Caste written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British administration in South Asia during the reign of Queen Victoria profiles the India Civil Service and the society they attempted to build in the region, explaining how officers and their families were expected to fulfill a wide range of roles.

The Ruling Caste & Frenzied Trade in Germany

Author : Maurice Millioud
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Caste & Frenzied Trade in Germany written by Maurice Millioud and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1916 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social And Military Position Of The Ruling Caste In Ancient India

Author : Edward Washburn Hopkins
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021534422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Social And Military Position Of The Ruling Caste In Ancient India written by Edward Washburn Hopkins and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the class structure and power dynamics in ancient India, drawing on literary and historical sources to paint a detailed picture of the ruling class and their influence. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanscrit Epic

Author : Edward W. Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanscrit Epic written by Edward W. Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The OBCs and the Ruling Classes in India

Author : Harnam Singh Verma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The OBCs and the Ruling Classes in India written by Harnam Singh Verma and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on people with social disabilities and various social classes and the government policies in India.

Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India

Author : Dag-Erik Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489877
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India by : Dag-Erik Berg

Download or read book Dynamics of Caste and Law: Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India written by Dag-Erik Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains how questions of caste and law involve persistent challenges concerning inequality and democracy in India's postcolonial state.

The Ruling Caste & Frenzied Trade in Germany

Author : Maurice Millioud
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The social and military position of the ruling caste in ancient India

Author : Edward Washburn Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The social and military position of the ruling caste in ancient India written by Edward Washburn Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annihilation of Caste

Author : B.R. Ambedkar
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168832X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Annihilation of Caste written by B.R. Ambedkar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.

Edge of Empire

Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425711
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Edge of Empire written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible—and topical—today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

The British in India

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374116857
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The British in India written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.

The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India

Author : Edward Washburn Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India written by Edward Washburn Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Ruling Class

Author : Suzanne Keller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351289187
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Ruling Class written by Suzanne Keller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential minorities have existed in some form in all human societies. Throughout history, such elites have evoked varied responses--respeet. hos-tility, fear. envy, imitation, but never indifference. While certain elite groups have been of only passing historical importance, strategic elites, whose mem-bers are national and international leaders, today are ultimately responsible for the realization of social goals and for the continuity of the social order in a swiftly changing world. This volume, which first appeared in 1963, markeda major advance in our theoretical understanding of these elites, why they are needed, how they operate, and what effect they have on society. Drawing upon the work of such classical writers as Saint-Simon. Marx. Durkheim. Mosca. Pareto. and Michels, and such modern scholars as Mann-heim. Lasswell, Aron. Mills, and Parsons, the author presents a challenging theory of elites that provides the framework for her examination of their co-existence, their social origins, and their rise and decline. The elites discussed here include political, diplomatic, economic, and military, as well as scientific, cultural, and religious ones. Systematically, the author surveys available em-pirical data concerning American society, and selected materials on Great Brit-ain. Germany, the Soviet Union, and the developing nations of Asia and Africa. Written with clarity and distinction. Beyond the Ruling Class remains a thorough and provocative treatment, rich in empirical insights, of a subject that will compel the attention of political scientists, sociologists, and historians concerned with themes of power, influence, and leadership in national and international life. Her new introduction to Beyond the Ruling Class is at once an appraisal of the current status of elite studies and a careful self-evaluation of her efforts.

Rise of the Plebeians?

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113651662X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Plebeians? written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of the lower castes who voted their own representatives to power as soon as they emancipated themselves from the elite’s domination. In Indian state politics, caste plays a major role and this book successfully studies how this caste-based social diversity gets translated into politics. This is the first comprehensive study of the sociological profile of Indian political personnel at the state level. It examines the individual trajectory of 16 states, from the 1950s to 2000s, according to one dominant parameter—the evolution of the caste background of their elected representatives known as Members of the Legislative Assembly, or MLAs. The study also takes into account other variables like occupation, gender, age and education.

The Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany (Classic Reprint)

Author : Maurice Millioud
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428824013
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany (Classic Reprint) written by Maurice Millioud and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ruling Caste and Frenzied Trade in Germany This is not a war of militarism alone. Even if the Prussian Junkers govern Prussia, it is idle to sup pose that they control the whole German Empire. It is doubtful, moreover, whether even Prussian. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.