Social Stratification

✍ Scribed by Dipankar Gupta (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 514
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This work discusses social stratification 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface Acknowledgements
IX • • •
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D ipankar G upta Hierarchy and Difference: An Introduction 1 I CASTE
M.N. Srinivas G .S . G hurye Mckim Marriott Pauline Kolenda C. BouglE T.N. Mad an Gerald D. Berreman Joan P. Mencher Dipankar Gupta
Varna and Caste Features of the Caste System
28 35
Multiple Reference in Indian Caste Systems 49 The Ideology of Purity
74 60
The Essence and Reality of the Caste System 64 Dumont on the Nature of Caste in India
The Brahmanical View of Caste The Caste System Upside Down
84 93
Continuous Hierarchies and Discrete Castes 110 H CASTE PROFILES
Andr£ B£teille Joyce Pettigrew S.N. Mukherjee R.S. Khare
CJ. Fuller Imtiaz Ahmed
Caste in a South Indian Village The Jats of Punjab Bhadraloks of Bengal The Untouchable's Version: Evaluating an Ideal Ascetic Kerala Christians and the Caste System Endogamy and Status Mobility among Siddique Sheikhs of Allahabad
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m CLASS
Morris, D. Morris The Emergence of an Industrial Labour
Force in India
M. HolmstrOm Who are the Working Class?
Agrarian Structure
The Model of Agrarian Classes in India
Daniel Thorner
D.N. Dhanagare
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Kathleen Gough Class and Economic Structure in Thanjavur 276
Ghanshyam Shah Tribal Identity and Class Differentiation:
The Chaudhri Tribe
288
IV CASTE, CLASS AND CONFLICT
M.N. Srjnivas
The Dominant Caste in Rampura
Mobility in the Caste System
William L. Rowe The New Cauhans: A Caste Mobility
Movement in North India
Andr£ BCteille
Caste, Class and Power
Suraj Bandopadhyay
and Donald Von Agricultural Failure: Caste, Class and
Eschen
Power in Rural West Bengal
Pradip K. B ose Mobility and Conflict: Social Roots of Caste
Violence in Bihar
F.G. Bailey
Jan Breman
Two Villages of Orissa: A Study of
Caste Disputes
Mobilization of Landless Labourers:
The Halpatis of South Gujarat
Romila Thapar
and Majid Hayat Tribals in History: The Case of
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Chota Nagpur
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANContents APPENDICES 1. Gavin Smith
The Use of the Marxian Method of Class Analysis
2. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Some Principles of Stratification: Moore
3. Max Weber
References Index
The Functionalist Position Class, Status and Party
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