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Lineages of Brahman Power: Caste, Family, and the State in Western India, 1600-1900

By Rosalind O'Hanlon
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By Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Traces the role that western India's influential Brahman communities played in shaping India's modern caste system.

Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's modern caste system. In Lineages of Brahman Power, Rosalind O'Hanlon focuses on their rise to power between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which some Brahman intellectuals sought to defend the hierarchies of caste against the social changes of the early modern e...

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