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In the Lineage of the King: Conversion, Identity and Why the Rajbanshi in Bangladesh Claim to be Kshatriya

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dc.contributor.author Wilson, Dr. Margot
dc.date.accessioned 2018-11-22T03:37:41Z
dc.date.available 2018-11-22T03:37:41Z
dc.date.issued 1/1/2012
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.ewubd.edu/handle/2525/2879
dc.description.abstract Claims to Kshatriya status by lower caste or tribal groups are by no means restricted in time and place to the Rajbanshi. Nevertheless, Rajbanshi claims provide a characteristic example of the colonial, caste and academic dialogues about conversion, elite emulation, ethnicity, and identity development which surround the processes defined as Hinduization and Sanskritization by weber and Srinivas. This paper relies on ethnographic research in a Rajbanshi community in northwest Bangladesh to augment and illustrate discussion points from that literature. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher East West University en_US
dc.subject Rajbanshi Community en_US
dc.title In the Lineage of the King: Conversion, Identity and Why the Rajbanshi in Bangladesh Claim to be Kshatriya en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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