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020 _a9780195641059
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100 _aVidal, Denis.
245 0 _aViolence and truth
260 _aDelhi
260 _bOxford University Press
260 _c1997
300 _a244p.
520 _aThis is an important and innovative book because it gives the analysis of violence, past and present, an important place in the sociology of India. It is also a strong, if mostly implicit, critique of Dumont's theory of cast, in which violence has no significant place. Trained as an anthropologist, the author distances himself from the accepted concepts in Indian sociology, and offers a different view of society in India.
650 _aRajasthan -History
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