Caste, Class and Power, Third Edition: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village (Oxford India Perennials Series)
By Andre Beteille.
Description
Caste, Class and Power is an intensive study of the changing patterns of social stratification in a multi-caste village in South India, first published in 1965. This village provides the background for this unusual description of contemporary change in a traditional society reacting to outside pressures. It recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste - between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins, and the Adi-Dravidas. Beteille shows how the forces of modernization had rendered ...
ISBN(s)
0198077432, 9780198077435
