List of Figures.
Preface.
Part I: Race, Caste, and Hierarchy.
1. Race and Caste as Natural Hierarchies.
2. Race.
3. Caste.
4. Hierarchy.
5. History and Ambivalence: a Place in the Sociological Debate.
Part II: Theoretical Constructions.
6. Introduction.
7. Essentialism and Anti-essentialism.
8. Structure.
9. Culture, Practice, and Symbol.
10. History.
11. Conclusion.
Part III: Economic and Political Formations.
12. Introduction.
13. European capitalism, Indian Capitalism?.
14. Political formations.
15. Europe.
16. India.
17. Nations and Citizenries.
Part IV: Race, Slavery, and Colonialism. .
18. Introduction.
19. Slavery.
20. Race and colonial society.
21. Race and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe.
Part V: Race, Caste and the Person. .
22. Introduction.
23. Race, Caste and Kinship.
24. Caste, kinship, and Gender in India.
25. Race, Kinship, and Gender in the Caribbean.
Part VI: Race, Caste and the Nation. .
26. Introduction.
27. Race and the Creolization in the Caribbean.
28. Euro-creole.
29. Afro-creole.
30. Caudillismo.
31. Caste, communalism, and the Nation in Contemporary India.
Part VII: Hierarchy and Politics. .
32. Hierarchy and a Sociology of Politics.
33. Hierarchy and a Politics of Sociology.
References.
Index.
