Society and Politics in India: Essays in a Comparative PerspectiveThis volume brings together some of the lost important essays written over the last two decades by one of India's most distinguished social scientists. They focus upon the relationship between various forms of inequality and distinction (race, caste, tribe, ethnicity and gender) and on concepts of the person; on the relationship between the values of equality and individualism; and on the ambivalent role of the modern Indian state as the guuarantor of these values. |
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demands of status and power | 150 |
Individual and person as subjects for sociology 250 | 250 |
Notes and sources | 276 |
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Adivasis agraharam American areas argued argument Backward Classes Béteille Bombay boundaries Brahmins caste and community Caste and Race caste quotas caste system civilization collective identities concept conflict Constitution Constitution of India contemporary India culture defined Delhi disabilities distinction dominant caste Dumont Durkheim E.E. Evans-Pritchard economic and political endogamy equality of opportunity essay ethnic Evans-Pritchard fieldwork Government groups Harijans hierarchy Hindu Hindu society holism ideas important individualism and equality inequality Justice Party Kallas kind kinship landowners large number London M.N. Srinivas Mauss mobility N.K. Bose networks non-Brahmins Nuer organized panchayat particular person political system problem right to equality Sanskritization Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes sections of society segmentary segments sense Shudra significance Smartha social anthropologists social structure sociologist sociology South India Sripuram status strata sub-caste Tamil Tamilnadu Tanjore district traditional Indian society United unity untouchables upper castes Vadama values village