Undoing the enduring colonial influence of Weber’s racist perspective on India

Abhoy K. Ojha ()
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Abhoy K. Ojha: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, 2023, vol. 50, issue 3, No 8, 367-371

Abstract: Abstract This article attempts to highlight the Eurocentric and colonial roots of Weber’s racist perspective on caste in India and urges scholars to overcome Eurocentric and colonial influences and seek more emic understandings of complex phenomenon in non-European societies, including India.

Keywords: decoloniality; pluriversality; India; caste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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