Caste, Conflict, and Ideology Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineenth-Centry Westen India

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Low caste protest in nineteenth-century western India Religion and society under early British rule From warrior traditions to nineteenth-century politics:structure, ideology, and identity in the N\araiha-kunbi caste complex The crisis of cultural legitimacy: missionaries, reformers,and Hindu society in the mid-nineteenth century The growth of religious reform opinion in western India Jotirao Phule and his circle: the emergence of a live radical voice Student radicals in mid-nineteenth-century western India Christianity and the attack on caste in Phule`s early writing The creation of a lower caste identity in history and culture, 1869-73 Ritual status and political conflict in later nineteenth-century Maharashtra The Aryan invasions and the origins of caste society Warriors and cultivators: the reinterpretation of popular culture Maratha history as polemic: low caste ideology and political debate in late nineteenth-century Maharashtra The lower caste community in contemporary society Religious emancipation and political competition Social protest and the construction of a religious ethic Traditional privileges and new skills: Phule`s analysis of the nature of Brahman power The Satyashodhak Samaj in the 18705 Ideology and the non-Brahman movement in the 1880s Phule`s polemic in the i88os: the ideological construction of rural life and labour The non-Brahman movement in the i88os Epilogue: ideology and politics in nineteenth-century western India