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Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Binaries, Louis Dumont:
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Anthropology
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history: producing knowledge about the past
anthropology: producing knowledge about the ethnographic present
orientalism
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this knowledge is really about how the west wants to represent itself, with the self-other binary.
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The Caste System Upside Down, or the Not So Mysterious
Joan P. Mencher
Upside down, viewing caste as a base rather than a superstructure.
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- what is he saying about caste
- relationship between caste and colonialism
- caste in the political
- how both texts referred to the works of dumont
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a problem of dirks' text is that he potentially looks at it 'upside down', he does not see it materially
when dirks says caste was fluid, this analysis doesn't really apply for those at the top and those at the bottom: there was not a lot of mobility there
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the bottom thinks of the caste system more materially whereas the top views it ideologically, through dharma and karma
material analysis: she draws a lot of comparisons between agrarian slavery and the caste system
it resembles feudal systems
caste oppressed people do not belong to the same values as the brahmanical values which represent the continent
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