Book
Marriage and rank in Bengali culture: a history of caste and clan in middle period Bengal
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Inden, Ronald B..
Abstract
This study, a revision of the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Chicago, 1972), is a detailed historical account of marriage and clan rank among two of the highest castes in Bengal -- the Brahman or 'priestly' caste, and the Kayastha or 'writer' caste, which were subdivided into smaller territorial units or 'subcastes'. The primary focus in this work in on two of the latter group, the Radhi Brahman, located in western and southeastern Bengal, and the Daksina-radhi Kayastha, found in southwestern Bengal (p. 1). The period of time covered in this source begins around the year 1500 AD with the formal organization of the Brahman and Kayastha into smaller subcastes and even smaller ranked grades of clans, and ends with the first attempts to reorganize into larger and more homogeneous units around the year 1850 under British administrative and economic control.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2002
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- South Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field Date
- 1964-1965 [p. ix]
- Coverage Date
- 1500-1850 [p. 2]
- Coverage Place
- India
- Notes
- [by] Ronald B. Inden
- LCCN
- 73085789
- LCSH
- Bengalis