title: Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
author:  Nicholas B. Dirks 
description: Is India's caste system the remnant of ancient India's social practices or the result of the historical relationship between India and British colonial rule? Dirks (history and anthropology, Columbia Univ.) elects to support the latter view. Adhering to the school of Orientalist thought promulgated by Edward Said and Bernard Cohn, Dirks argues that British colonial control of India for 200 years pivoted on its manipulation of the caste system. He hypothesizes that caste was used to organize India's diverse social groups for the benefit of British control. His thesis embraces substantial and powerfully argued evidence. It suffers, however, from its restricted focus to mainly southern India and its near polemic and obsessive assertions. Authors with differing views on India's ethnology suffer near-peremptory dismissal. Nevertheless, this groundbreaking work of interpretation demands a careful scholarly reading and response. John F. Riddick, Central Michigan Univ. Lib., Mt. Pleasant <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ‘Popular’ Movements and ‘Middle Class’ 
  Leadership in Late Colonial India : 
  Perspectives and Problems of a 
  ‘History From Below’ 
  SUMIT SARKAR 
  Published for 
  Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 
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  Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar Lectures 
  on Indian History 
  The first volume published in the series is by Professor 
  Maheswar Neog, entitled Socio-Political Events in Assam Leading 
  to the Militancy of the Mdydmariyd Vaisnavas. Some reference 
  will be found there to the homage tha-t the CSSSC desires to 
  