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Casting Kings: Bards and Indian Modernity
Casting Kings Bards and Indian Modernity
Author: Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But focus in these studies is typi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780195307757
ISBN-10: 0195307755
Publication Date: 8/10/2006
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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