Peasants and monks in British India
Tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste.
1 online resource (xi, 242 pages) : maps
9780520916302, 9780585070445, 9780520200609, 9780520200616, 0520916301, 058507044X, 0520200608, 0520200616
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Introduction: Peasants, monks, and Indian history
Sadhus and Shudras in North India, ca. 1700-1900
Ramanand and Ramanandis, ca. 1900-1940
Being Vaishnava, becoming Kshatriya
Culture, conflict, and violence in Gangetic India
Conclusions
Francis Buchanan
Dharnidharacharya and James Tod
Gopa Charitam
English