TY - BOOK AU - Bayly Susan TI - Caste, Society and Politics in India: From the eighteenth century to the modern Age SN - 0-521-79842-6 U1 - 305.5 23 PY - 2006/// CY - UK. PB - Cambridge University Press. N1 - 1.Historical origins of a caste society 2.The brahman Raj: kings and service people c.1700-1830 3.Western orientalists and the colonial perception of caste 4.Caste and the modern nation:incubus or essence 5.The everyday experience of caste in colonail india 6.Caste debate and the emergence of gandhian nationalism 7.State policy and reservations:the politicisation of caste based social welfare schemes 8.Caste in the everyday life of independent India 9.Caste wars and the mandate of violence ER -