The Politics of Lineage: Caste, Kinship and Land Control in an Agrarian Frontier
This paper traces the shifting loci of community in rural Haryana (“the Delhi frontier”) in the early nineteenth century, focusing particularly upon caste and kinship. It suggests that categories later identified by bureaucrats and scholars as “caste” and “tribe” in this region were in fact simply b...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2019-08-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5638 |
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