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Caste in comtemporary India : beyond organic solidarity / Pauline Kolenda

By: Publication details: Illinois : Waveland Press, Inc., c1978Description: 181 p. : ill. : 22 cmISBN:
  • 088133183X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 301.440 KOL
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Castes as Descent-Groups
Chapter 2. The Origins of Caste
Chapter 3. The Caste System Analyzed : The localized Social Structure
Chapter 4. The Caste System Analyzed: The Ideology of Purity and Pollution
Chapter 5. Jati Segments-Again Descent Groups
Chapter 6. Social and Cultural Mobility within the Case System
Chapter 7. Revolts against the Caste System
Chapter 8. Hinduism and the Caste System
Chapter 9. Caste and Politics
Chapter 10. Untouchability and the Government
Chapter 11. The Commercialization of Agriculture and the Release of Agrestic Laborers from the Caste System
Chapter 12. Caste in the City
Conclusion

References : p. 152 - 170
Index : p. 171 - 181

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