In this article,the author reviews the regional perspective of South Asian research.Indian thinkers in the colonial period consciously linked the fate of South Asia closely to the entire Asia.French Anthropologist Louis Dumont's research on caste and criticisms encountered reflect the regional comparative perspective of European and American schol-ars and the tendency of local South Asian scholars to discuss South Asia on its own.Although the"subaltern studies"in South Asia has enormous value,it has basically lost its regional perspective.The prominent feature of South Asian re-search lies in its"regional"imagination and the regional transformation of this imagination.Local research that loses its regional perspective will have to acknowledge the academic division of labor that emphasizes the universality of Western discourse and the uniqueness of non-Western discourse.China's regional ethnography needs to draw lessons from South Asian studies and adhere to a broad regional perspective.
South AsianRegional PerspectiveCaste"Subaltern Studies"
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