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As an ethnographer of villages, Pauline Kolenda has worked in north, central and south India. Fourteen of her papers, written between 1976 and 2001, are collected in this volume.
Part I is composed of four papers concerning Khalapur, in western Uttar Pradesh, where Kolenda did fieldwork first in 1954 and last in 1998. Two concern ‘untouchable’ Sweepers, one describing how Sweeper women experience the practice of mandatory levirate; the other ...
Caste in Contemporary India unfolds that caste system in India is undergoing a change in its form, nature and character. The shape of emerging India will be different from that of modern western societies, and caste, in its new transformation, will be an important contributing factor in determining that shape.The book analytically elucidates that inheritance of caste occupation has been fading as a feature of caste membership for the past century with mixed ...
As an ethnographer of village, Pauline Kolenda has worked in north, central and south India. Fourteen of her papers, written between 1976 and 2001, are collected in this volume. Part I is composed of four papers concerning Khalapur, western Uttar Pradesh, where Kolenda did fieldwork first in 1954 and lat 1998. Two concern ‘untouchable’ Sweepers, one describing how Sweeper women experience the practice of mandatory levirate; the other describing the Sweeper ...