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The Poison in the Gift
The Poison in the Gift is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of ritual centrality, Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial interpretation advanced by Louis Dumont in his 1966 book, Homo Hierarchicus, in which he proposed a disjunction between the ideology of hierarchy based on the "purity" of the Brahman priest and the "temporal power" of the dominant caste or the king.
Bhārata Kā Rājapatra
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Deception
The previous book by the author was an exposé on how the narrative of falsehood of Hindu terror was conceived and propagated in the country. An attempt has been made in this book -- Deception, to capture the intrinsic working of the Government through the triumphs and tribulations of the central character -- Kalyan. He exposes how critical information which is testified by intelligence agencies is also manipulated by the Government which is in pursuit of larger political conspiracy by blaming one ethnic group to placate the other ethnic group. Such acts , perpetuated only to appease the minorites and make them captive voters of this political formation.
Indian Dairyman
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The Sikh Review
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Criminal Law Journal
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