Caste in contemporary India : beyond organic solidarity /
Kolenda, Pauline.
Good, Anthony,former owner.StEdNL
Prospect Heights, Illinois. : Waveland Press, Inc.,
1985, c1978.
Includes indexes.
Reprint. Originally published: Menlo Park, Calif. : Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., c1978.
Includes bibliography: p. 152-170 and index.
Castes as descent-groups -- The origins of caste -- The caste system analyzed: the localized social structure -- The caste system analyzed: the ideology of purity and pollution -- Jati segments--again descent-groups -- Social and cultural mobility within the caste system -- Revolts against the caste system -- Hinduism and the caste system -- Caste and politics -- Untouchability and the government -- The commercialization of agriculture and the release of agrestic laborers from the caste system -- Caste in the city.
Inscription on front free endpaper: Anthony Good, Edinburgh, October 1989.
Caste