Constructing the Colonial Encounter: Right and Left Hand Castes in Early Colonial South India

By Niels Brimnes

This study offers a systematic analysis of the violent clashes between the South Indian 'right' and 'left' hand caste divisions that repeatedly rocked the European settlements on the Coromandel Coast in the early colonial period.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700711066
• ISBN13: 9780700711062
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"