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Re: [OPE-L] Caste system

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> Can any list members recomend good marxian analyses of the Indian caste
> system.
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> Paul Cockshott
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> www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc
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helpful overview of debates

Terminology, History and Debate: ?Caste? Formation or ?Class? Formation
Author: Bahl, Vinay
Source: The Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 17, Numbers 2-3, June
2004, pp. 265-318(54)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Also see older essay on caste in Irfan Habib's Essays on Indian History:
Towards a Marxist Perception (can't remember exact title of book)

Two much discussed books are the ones by Nicholas Dirks and Susan Bayly on
caste; both were written less than ten years ago. Neither book is Marxist
but both are historical and materialist to some degree.
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