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Elites in South Asia

Edmund Leach author S N Mukherjee author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:5th Mar '09

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A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. The problems delineated are by no means peculiar to the Indian subcontinent. Nearly all the developing countries of contemporary Asia, Africa and Latin America are entangled with their post-colonial heritage and the history of political elitism in all these countries has been similar. The papers consider who were members of the elites, in the sense of 'men at the top'. They enquire how they got there, how they continued to recruit themselves and what was their relationship with the British. The contributors, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians, present each other with forms of evidence which are unfamiliar and, in sum, result in a study which destroys many of the conventional clichés of colonial historians.

ISBN: 9780521107655

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm

Weight: 420g

284 pages