Author: Seneviratne, H. L.; editor:
Title: Identity, Consciousness and the Past : Forging of Caste and Community in India and Sri Lanka
Description: Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1997. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, viii,207 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 9 papers. Includes: Identity & the Conflation of Past & Present; History in the Making: Anuradhapura & the SInhala Buddhist Nation; Three Dispositions Towards the Past: One SInhala, Two Tamil; The Myth of the Human Sacrifice: History, Story & Debate in a Buddhist Chronicle; History, Biography & Poetry at the Tanjavur; The Invention of Caste: Civil Society in Colonial India; On Royalty, Caste and Temples in Sri Lanka and South India; Cultures of Rule, Communities of Resistance: Gender, Discourse & Tradition in Recent South Asian Historiographies; Indian Untouchable Texts of Resistance: Symbolic Domination & Historical Knowledge.

Keywords: Indian Historical Sociology, India South Asia, Social Anthropology, Historiography, History, Caste, Sri Lanka, Ethnicity, Class