Caste Panchayats and Caste Politics in India

Acknowledgments
Contents
1 Introduction: Studying Caste Panchayats
1 Goals
2 Some Elementary Definitions
3 Some Preliminary Points About Method
4 Structure of the Book
References
2 The Caste Panchayat, Caste Governance, and the Role of the State: The Long View
1 Why the Long View?
2 Early Forms of Caste Governance
3 The Centralizing State and Caste Governance
4 British Challenge to Inter-caste Hierarchy and Transformation of Caste Governance
5 Caste Politics and Secularization of Caste Governance in Postcolonial India
6 Concluding Remarks
References
3 Caste Panchayats Today
1 Claims and Rationale
2 Caste in the Study of Politics: The Context of Modernization
3 Present Day Caste Panchayats from Haryana and Maharashtra
4 Conclusions: Caste Politics and the Politics of Governmentality
References
4 Intra-caste Purity and Social Ostracization
1 Intra-caste Pollution and Social Ostracization
2 The Social Meaning of Ostracization
3 Social Ostracization as a Tool of Inter-caste and Intra-caste Governance
4 Concluding Remarks
References
5 Caste Endogamy
1 Background and Goals
2 Recovering the Religious Roots of Caste Endogamy
3 The British Engagement with ‘Hindu’ Law
4 Caste Endogamy in Post-independence Intra-caste Panchayats
5 Caste Endogamy and the Political Role of Caste
References
6 Conclusions
References
Index