Book Reviews : NICHOLAS B. DIRKS, Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002, pp. 372

IF 0.3 2区历史学 Q2 HISTORY

Indian Economic and Social History Review Pub Date : 2003-12-01 DOI:10.1177/001946460304000404

S. Guha

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a history of the idea-which is to say, practically a history of Indian anthropology, and second, a more tentative account of a history of the growth of caste ’as we know it today’, from the kingdoms of medieval India up to the conflicts around reservations for ’Other Backward Classes’ in contemporary India. The book is divided into four parts, successively titled ’The &dquo;Invention&dquo; of Caste’, ’Colonization of the Archive’, ’The Ethnographic State’ and ’Recasting India: Caste, Community and Politics’, and a short historiographic tailpiece or ‘Coda’ . The arrangement is, broadly speaking, chronological. The early chapters discuss early Western writings-with an amusing foray into the 1786 translation of the Ain, whose compiler Dirks finds ’spent far more time delineating the kinbased local social categories that actually made up the local social order than it did commenting on caste .... And under direct Mughal rule, the most salient titles conferring status were those that signified a relationship to or an honour derived from the Mughal court, such as Mansabdar, Zamindar, or Bahadur’ (p. 20). This piece of schoolboy bahaduri is (the charitable would say) unsupported by the reference given and does not increase one’s confidence in the author’s other

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书评:NICHOLAS B. DIRKS，《心理种姓:殖民主义与现代印度的形成》，德里:永久黑人出版社，2002年，第372页

这是一部关于这一观念的历史——也就是说，实际上是一部印度人类学的历史;其次，这是一部关于“我们今天所知道的”种姓的发展史的尝试性的叙述，从中世纪印度的王国一直到当代印度围绕“其他落后阶级”保留区的冲突。全书分为四部分，依次为“发明”。《种姓》、《档案的殖民化》、《民族志国家》和《重塑印度:种姓、社区和政治》，以及一篇简短的史学尾篇或“尾篇”。总的来说，这种排列是按时间顺序排列的。书的前几章讨论了早期的西方著作，并对1786年翻译的《艾因》进行了有趣的探讨，该书的编纂者德克斯发现，《艾因》花了更多的时间描述以亲属为基础的当地社会类别，这些类别实际上构成了当地的社会秩序，而不是评论种姓....在莫卧儿王朝的直接统治下，授予地位的最显著的头衔是那些表示与莫卧儿宫廷的关系或来自莫卧儿宫廷的荣誉，如Mansabdar、Zamindar或Bahadur(第20页)。(慈善人士会说)这篇男生的巴哈杜里没有参考文献的支持，也不会增加一个人对作者另一个人的信心

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