Call number:
PIK E 712-10-0213
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Hierarchy and Difference: An Introduction ; Caste ; Varna and Caste ; Features of the Caste System ; Multiple Reference in Indian Caste Systems ; The Ideology of Purity ; The Essence and Reality of the Caste System ; Dumont on the Nature of Caste in India ; The Brahmanical View of Caste ; The Caste System Upside Down ; Continuous Hierarchies and Discrete Castes ; Caste Profiles ; 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 ; Class ; The Emergence of an Industrial Labour Force in India ; Who are the Working Class? ; Agrarian Structure ; The Model of Agrarian Classes in India ; Class and Economic Structure in Thanjavur ; Tribal Identity and Class Differentiation: The Chaudhri Tribe ; Caste, Class and Conflict ; The Dominant Caste in Rampura ; Mobility in the Caste System ; The New Cauhans: A Caste Mobility Movement in North India ; Caste, Class and Power ; Agricultural Failure: Caste, Class and Power in Rural West Bengal ; Mobility and Conflict: Social Roots of Caste Violence in Bihar ; Two Villages of Orissa: A Study of Caste Disputes ; Mobilization of Landless Labourers: The Halpatis of South Gujarat ; Tribals in History: The Case of Chota Nagpur ; App. I. The Use of the Marxian Method of Class Analysis ; App. II. Some Principles of Stratification: The Functionalist Position ; App. III. Class, Status and Party ; App. IV. Hierarchy, Status and Power: The Caste System and its Implications
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
XVII, 518 S.
Edition:
18. impr.
ISBN:
9780195630886
Series Statement:
Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology
Location:
A 18 - must be ordered
Branch Library:
PIK Library
