Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges: Passages of Resistance (Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific)

by Assa Doron (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $151.13

  A study of power and resistance in everyday life which investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organisation and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination.