[英]苏珊·贝利 从18世纪到现代的印度种姓、社会和政治(新编剑桥印度史4.3)

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1、Caste,SocietyandPoliticsinIndiafromtheEighteenthCenturytotheModernAgeThephenomenonofcastehasprobablyarousedmorecontroversythananyotheraspectofIndianlifeandthought.SomescholarsseeIndia'scastesystemasthede®ningfeatureofIndianculture,althoughitisdismissedbyothersasacolonialartefact.SusanBayl

2、y'scogentandsophisticatedanalysisexplorestheemergenceoftheideas,experiencesandpracticeswhichgaverisetoso-called`castesociety'overaperiodof300years,fromthepre-colonialperiodtotheendofthetwentiethcentury.Combininghistoricalandanthropologicalapproaches,Baylyframesheranalysiswithinthecontexto

3、fIndia'sdynamiceconomicandsocialorder.ShetherebyinterpretscastenotastheessenceofIndiancultureandcivilisation,butratherasacontingentandvariableresponsetotheenormouschangesthatoccurredinthesubcontinent'spoliticallandscapebothbeforeandaftercolonialconquest.Insubsequentchapters,sheexploresthe

4、ideaofcasteinrelationtoIndianandWestern`orientalist'thought,andtheupheavalsassociatedwithcompetingunderstandingsofIndiannationalismandthecreationofthemodernIndiannation-state.Thebook'swide-rangingandrigorousanalysisoffersoneofthemostpowerfulstatementsyettobewrittenoncasteinSouthAsia.SUSAN

5、BAYLYisaFellowofChrist'sCollege,CambridgeandholdsalectureshipinhistoryandsocialanthropologyattheUniversityofCambridge.HerpreviouspublicationsincludeSaints,GoddessesandKings:MuslimsandChristiansinSouthIndianSociety,1700±1900(1989).CambridgeHistoriesOnline©CambridgeUniversityPress,2008THENE

6、WCAMBRIDGEHISTORYOFINDIAGeneraleditorGordonJohnsonPresidentofWolfsonCollege,andDirector,CentreofSouthAsianStudies,UniversityofCambridgeAssociateeditorsC.A.BaylyVereHarmsworthProfessorofImperialandNavalHistory,UniversityofCambridge,andFellowofStCatharine'sCollegeandJohnF.RichardsProfessoro

7、fHistory,DukeUniversityAlthoughtheoriginalCambridgeHistoryofIndia,publishedbetween1922and1937,didmuchtoformulateachronologyforIndianhistoryanddescribetheadministrativestructuresofgovernmentinIndia,ithasinevitablybeenovertakenbythemassofnewresearchoverthepastsixtyyea