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.