Social Stratification
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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. Contents Preface Acknowledgements IX • • • Xlll 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 Digitized by Google Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 146 163 176 183 195 213XVI Contents 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 227 231 248 261 271 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 SlDDIQI Chota Nagpur 303 307 312 326 339 353 369 387 399 419 Digitized by Google Original from 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 xvn 431 432 441 454 471 489
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