Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Glossary
- Introduction: Change, the societies of India and Indian society
- Part I The changing countryside
- Part II Change from above
- Appendix One Major political events in the related histories of British imperialism and Indian nationalism, 1858–1947
- Appendix Two Major political events in the history of the Indian Union, 1947–2002
- Notes
- Guide to further reading
- Index
Part I - The changing countryside
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps and tables
- Preface to the second edition
- Glossary
- Introduction: Change, the societies of India and Indian society
- Part I The changing countryside
- Part II Change from above
- Appendix One Major political events in the related histories of British imperialism and Indian nationalism, 1858–1947
- Appendix Two Major political events in the history of the Indian Union, 1947–2002
- Notes
- Guide to further reading
- Index
Summary
My discussion in part I is of the Indian countryside's basic social institutions, from the smallest to the most inclusive, and how they are all changing. Families, with particular regard to their female members, and villages are the topics of chapter 1. Chapter 2 focuses on that unique Indian institution, caste. Class, in its several manifestations, is the topic of chapter 3. In chapter 4, I discuss ethnolinguistic homelands-cum-states of the Indian Union. Religion, and particularly Hinduism, as it affects these institutions and is affected by them, is part of the discussion in general.
Although the institutions of part I vary considerably in their structure from one place to another, I have tried with whatever success to describe them generally for a non-specialist audience. My own experiences have given a north Indian bias to my descriptions. I describe the institutions in part I as changing and emphasize their participation in bourgeois revolution. In doing this, I have necessarily, though not exclusively, focused my discussion on rural middle classes.
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- Changing IndiaBourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent, pp. 33 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003