About the Book: Administering Colonialism and War
This edited volume is dedicated to the study of social, economic, and political
elites in India. Its contributors address some fundamental questions regarding
Indias social and economic elites, the change in their composition in recent
years, their relationship with each other and with the rest of the social body,
and the role of caste in the configuration and reconfiguration of social and
economic elites by analysing elite discourses and representations and what they
reveal of their social inscription in contemporary India. The editors have
sorted this book into three broad themes. The first theme concerns elite spaces
which explores the uneasiness