The Politics of Lineage: Caste, Kinship and Land Control in an Agrarian Frontier

This paper traces the shifting loci of community in rural Haryana (“the Delhi frontier”) in the early nineteenth century, focusing particularly upon caste and kinship. It suggests that categories later identified by bureaucrats and scholars as “caste” and “tribe” in this region were in fact simply b...

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Main Author: Girija Joshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2019-08-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5638