Caste and Kinship in KangraThis study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes. |
Contents
the axiom and idiom of inequality | 3 |
Clans and their segments | 131 |
Households and their partition | 150 |
Rajput hypergamy in an historical perspective | 195 |
The biradari reform movement | 247 |
Marriage strategies | 270 |
Affines and consanguines | 297 |
The limits of hierarchy | 314 |
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affines agnates alliance aristocratic Rajputs asymmetrical Backward Classes Barber basis biradari Brahman bride bride-price British brothers census Chapter clean castes context cultivated daughters death distinction dowry Dumna Dumont economic endogamy equal example exchange exogamy fact father fourth biradari girls Girth gotra groom hamlets hierarchy high-caste hookah house-cluster hypergamy ideal India infanticide inferior inherit jajman joint family joint household kamin Kangra District Gazetteer Kanthwal Katoch khandan kinship Kolis Kshatriya labour ladder land landlord Leather-workers low castes marriage marriage circle married mauza Chadhiar Mian mother nali rasoi Nanwaraks north India Nurpur occupation Palampur partition Patidar pattern plough Pocock pollution prestations prestige Punjab purohit Raja rank Rathis relations relationship ritual royal clans rules of exogamy Scheduled Caste second biradari segments share Singh sister status sub-clan sub-division superior tehsil Temple priests tenants tika tion untouchable village wife wife-givers wife-takers wives women