Caste and language
Article outline
- 1.Caste in colonial and postcolonial India
- 1.1Race and caste
- 1.2Census and caste
- 1.2.1The census in contemporary India
- 1.2.2The colonial census of India
- 1.3The ‘People of India’ project
- 1.4Literary expressions
- 1.5Lexicology
- 2.Caste in contemporary India
- 2.1The cognitive paradox of ‘untouchability’
- 2.2Stigmatized bodies
- 2.3The fiction of caste
- 2.4Gender and caste
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