Social stratification

Contributor(s):

Gupta, Dipankar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Edition: 2nd and enl. EdittionDescription: xvii, 518 pISBN:

0195630882
9780195630886

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DDC classification:

306 SOC

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Contents:

Varna and caste / M.N. Srinivas -- Features of the caste system / G.S. Ghurye -- Multiple reference in Indian caste systems / McKim Marriott -- The ideology of purity / Pauline Kolenda -- The essence and reality of the caste system / C. Bouglé -- Dumont on the nature of caste in India / T.N. Madan -- The Brahmanical view of caste / Gerald D. Berreman -- The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher -- Continuous hierarchies and discrete castes / Dipankar Gupta -- Caste in a South Indian village / André Béteille -- The Jats of Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew -- Bhadraloks of Bengal / S.N. Mukherjee -- The untouchable's version: evaluating an ideal ascetic / R.S. Khare -- Kerala Christians and the caste system / C.J. Fuller. Endogamy and status mobility among Siddique Sheikhs of Allahabad / Imtiaz Ahmed -- The emergence of an industrial labour force in India / Morris, D. Morris -- Who are the working class? / M. Holmström -- Agrarian structure / Daniel Thorner -- The model of agrarian classes in India / D.N. Dhanagare -- Class and economic structure in Thanjavur / Kathleen Gough -- Tribal identity and class differentiation: the Chaudhri tribe / Ghanshyam Shah -- The dominant caste in Rampura ; Mobility in the caste system / M.N. Srinivas -- The new Cauhans: a caste mobility movement in North India / William L. Rowe -- Caste, class and power / André Béteille -- Agricultural failure: caste, class and power in rural West Bengal / Suraj Bandopadhyay and Donald Von Eschen. Mobility and conflict: social roots of caste violence in Bihar / Pradip K. Bose -- Two villages of Orissa: a study of caste disputes / F.G. Bailey -- Mobilization of landless labourers: the Halpatis of South Gujarat / Jan Breman -- Tribals in history: the case of Chota Nagpur / Romila Thapar and Majid Hayat Siddiqi -- The use of the Marxian method of class analysis / Gavin Smith -- Some principles of stratification: the functionalist position / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore -- Class, status and party / Max Weber -- Hierarchy, status and power: the caste system and its implications / Louis Dumont.

Summary: This work discusses social stratisfication in India with an interdisciplinary approach. It contains both classical and new writing on caste. It profiles the variations and the social importance of this system. The work also examines class and its dynamics, highlighting the urgency of the topic, considering all the complexities of current social and political life in India.

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Included Index.

Varna and caste / M.N. Srinivas --
Features of the caste system / G.S. Ghurye --
Multiple reference in Indian caste systems / McKim Marriott --
The ideology of purity / Pauline Kolenda --
The essence and reality of the caste system / C. Bouglé --
Dumont on the nature of caste in India / T.N. Madan --
The Brahmanical view of caste / Gerald D. Berreman --
The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher --
Continuous hierarchies and discrete castes / Dipankar Gupta --
Caste in a South Indian village / André Béteille --
The Jats of Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew --
Bhadraloks of Bengal / S.N. Mukherjee --
The untouchable's version: evaluating an ideal ascetic / R.S. Khare --
Kerala Christians and the caste system / C.J. Fuller. Endogamy and status mobility among Siddique Sheikhs of Allahabad / Imtiaz Ahmed --
The emergence of an industrial labour force in India / Morris, D. Morris --
Who are the working class? / M. Holmström --
Agrarian structure / Daniel Thorner --
The model of agrarian classes in India / D.N. Dhanagare --
Class and economic structure in Thanjavur / Kathleen Gough --
Tribal identity and class differentiation: the Chaudhri tribe / Ghanshyam Shah --
The dominant caste in Rampura ; Mobility in the caste system / M.N. Srinivas --
The new Cauhans: a caste mobility movement in North India / William L. Rowe --
Caste, class and power / André Béteille --
Agricultural failure: caste, class and power in rural West Bengal / Suraj Bandopadhyay and Donald Von Eschen. Mobility and conflict: social roots of caste violence in Bihar / Pradip K. Bose --
Two villages of Orissa: a study of caste disputes / F.G. Bailey --
Mobilization of landless labourers: the Halpatis of South Gujarat / Jan Breman --
Tribals in history: the case of Chota Nagpur / Romila Thapar and Majid Hayat Siddiqi --
The use of the Marxian method of class analysis / Gavin Smith --
Some principles of stratification: the functionalist position / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore --
Class, status and party / Max Weber --
Hierarchy, status and power: the caste system and its implications / Louis Dumont.

This work discusses social stratisfication in India with an interdisciplinary approach. It contains both classical and new writing on caste. It profiles the variations and the social importance of this system. The work also examines class and its dynamics, highlighting the urgency of the topic, considering all the complexities of current social and political life in India.

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