Communities Segments Synonyms Surnames And Titles

Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1976 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles written by K. S. Singh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on first-hand surveys, as well as secondary sources, Volume V111 contains a comprehensive list of communities across the country with their synonyms and segments, including allexogenous units, titles, and surnames.

Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185579092
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People of India: Communities, segments, synonyms, surnames, and titles written by K. S. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study.

Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles written by K. S. Singh and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People of India Project, a massive exercise carried out by the Anthropological Survey of India, has generated a wealth of information on the hundreds of communities which exist in this country. These communities are presented in an alphabetical order for easy reference, and the subjects covered in each case include culture, location, language, script, biological variation, food habits, rituals, work practices, educational level and impact of development.

Author : K. S. Singh
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171547692
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rajasthan written by K. S. Singh and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kumar Suresh Singh
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788179911013
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maharashtra written by Kumar Suresh Singh and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study.

Author : Patrick Hanks
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195081374
Total Pages : 2094 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Family Names written by Patrick Hanks and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where did your surname come from? Do you know how many people in the United States share it? What does it tell you about your lineage?From the editor of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Surnames comes the most extensive compilation of surnames in America. The result of 10 years of research and 30 consulting editors, this massive undertaking documents 70,000 surnames of Americans across the country. A reference source like no other, it surveys each surname giving its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with it, and the frequency of each surname and forename.The Dictionary of American Family Names is a fascinating journey throughout the multicultural United States, offering a detailed look at the meaning and frequency of surnames throughout the country. For students studying family genealogy, others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, or lexicographers, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.

Author : Laura Dudley Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134434170
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identity and Identification in India written by Laura Dudley Jenkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a state empower its citizens by classifying them? Or do reservation policies reinforce the very categories they are meant to eradicate? Indian reservation policies on government jobs, legislative seats and university admissions for disadvantaged groups, like affirmative action policies elsewhere, are based on the premise that recognizing group distinctions in society is necessary to subvert these distinctions. Yet the official identification of eligible groups has unintended side-effects on identity politics. Bridging theories which emphasize the fluidity of identities and those which highlight the utility of group-based mobilizations and policies, this book exposes didactic enforcement of categorizations, while recognizing the social and political gains facilitated by group-based strategies.

Author : Sudha Pai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136197850
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developmental State and the Dalit Question in Madhya Pradesh: Congress Response written by Sudha Pai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya Pradesh under the leadership of Digvijay Singh. In Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in response to the strong wave of Dalit assertion that swept the region, parties such as the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) used strategies of political mobilisation to consolidate Dalit/backward votes and capture state power. In Madhya Pradesh, in contrast, the Congress party and Digvijay Singh at the historic Bhopal Conference held in January 2002 adopted a new model of development that attempted to mobilise Dalits and tribals and raise their standard of living by providing them economic empowerment. This new Dalit Agenda constitutes an alternative strategy at gaining Dalit/tribal support through of state-sponsored economic upliftment as opposed to the political mobilisation strategy employed by the BSP in Uttar Pradesh. The present study puts to test the limits of the model of state-led development, of the use of political power by an enlightened political elite to introduce change from above to address the weaker sections of society. The working of the state is thus analysed in the context of the society in which it is embedded and the former’s ability to insulate itself from powerful vested interests. In interrogating this state-led redistributive paradigm, the study has generated empirical data based on extensive fieldwork and brought to the fore both the potentials and the limitations of using the model of ‘development from above’ in a democracy. It suggests that the absence of an upsurge from below limits the ability of an enlightened political elite that mans the developmental state to introduce social change and help the weaker sections of society.

Author : Jürgen Schaflechner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190850523
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hinglaj Devi written by Jürgen Schaflechner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions for transliteration, transcription and sources -- Introduction -- The struggle over truth -- Hinglaj in perspective -- Historical Representations and recent changes -- (Un)necessary hardships in "getting there"--Change and perseverance -- Solidifying Hinglaj: Striving for a uniform tradition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198896735
Total Pages : 689 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Caste written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social practices, attracting scholars from a wide range of disciplines—sociology, political science, history, literature, and even economics. Underlying this opening of the subject of caste were many factors: epistemic, empirical, and political. Caste is no longer approached through the classical binaries of 'traditional' and 'modern'; the 'East' and the 'West'; or the 'closed' and 'open' systems of stratification. With the growing consolidation of caste-based identities among those ranked lower down in the hierarchy since the 1990s, raising questions of citizenship and dignity, the subject has acquired a new salience. As the emerging research shows, the realities of caste on the ground have always been diverse across regions, often contested and ever changing. This Handbook presents a wide range of essays written by authors representing diverse academic disciplines and perspectives, bringing together the emerging trends in the research, imaginations, and lived realities of caste.