This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of caste-based politics in the region was as much the result of c

Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been

It is often assumed that the caste system in South Asia has faded away. Yet it is indeed unlikely that a social structure organizing the political, economic, an