Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been

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Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police

When members of groups that have long been marginalized finally gain access to political offices, it is expected that the social meaning of belonging to such a

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