Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste, Family, and the State in Western India, 1600-1900 - Hardcover
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Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste, Family, and the State in Western India, 1600-1900
Traces the role that western India's influential Brahman communities played in shaping India's modern caste system.
Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's modern caste system. In Lineages of Brahman Power, Rosalind O'Hanlon focuses on their rise to power between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which some Brahman...
Rosalind O'Hanlon is Professor Emeritus of Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford. Her previous books include Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives, coedited with David Washbrook, and At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and Intellectual History of India.
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