This is an important and innovative book because it gives the analysis of violence, past and present, an important place in the sociology of India. It is also a strong, if mostly implicit, critique of Dumont's theory of cast, in which violence has no significant place. Trained as an anthropologist, the author distances himself from the accepted concepts in Indian sociology, and offers a different view of society in India.
- ISBN10 0195641051
- ISBN13 9780195641059
- Publish Date 1 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 June 2010
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 258
- Language English