Caste: At Home in Hindu India - Hardcover

Baker, Sophie

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9780224024594: Caste: At Home in Hindu India

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ISBN 10: 0224024590 ISBN 13: 9780224024594

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1990

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A photographic record supported by personal accounts by Jarijan outcasts revealing how these 800 million people in India manage their lives in the social grip of an age-old hierarchy of religious origin. In an attempt to unravel the mysteries of this subtle doctrine , Sophie Baker went to live with families of the four main castes and experienced at first hand their impoverishment. She sketches an outline of the Hindu philosophy in which caste is rooted and reveals a moving account of the efffect of the entrenched codes of conduct that holds an entire population in thrall.

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About the Author:

Sophie Baker's photographic career has combined arts photography in the West with Third Word photo-journalism. Over a period of twenty years she has worked with musicians and for classical theatres such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, become an established film stills photographer and undertaken many projects for charities such as Help the Aged and Christian Aid. The remarkable collection of photographs in Caste reflects her enduring interest in people as subjects for her work.

From Library Journal:

Baker, a British photographer, was working in Afghanistan at the time of the Soviet invasion and returned home via India. Impressed by the cultural diversity of India, she returned several times. This book is her observations about life there. The book is not on the caste system per se; rather, it is primarily a discussion of six families from different parts of India and how they come to terms with Indian traditions and the demands of the modern world. The major caste groups are represented among these families, but Baker's treatment is far more of life in India rather than the role of caste in society. Libraries interested in world cultures will welcome this sensitive and well-written treatment of family life in India.
- Donald Clay Johnson, Univ. of Minnesota Lib., Minneapolis
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