Download or read book Social Stratification in India written by Kanhaiyalal Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a holistic understanding of the complexities of Indian society by analyzing the historical, cultural and political bases of social stratification. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, and political sociology, as also to concerned intellectuals and planners.
Download or read book Social Stratification written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Oxford in India Readings in So. This book was released on 1992 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of sociological essays on four main themes in Indian culture: caste, caste profiles, class and conflict.
Download or read book Social Stratification in India written by K L Sharma and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Departs from the tendency to understand social stratification mainly from the perspective of sociology to provide a holistic understanding of social stratification and mobility in India, drawing on ideas from various branches of the social sciences. Analyzes the historical, cultural, and political bases of social stratification, with chapters on the phenomenon in the rural and urban settings and in weaker sections of society, and on gender and social stratification and social mobility. Of interest to scholars in sociology, social anthropology, and political sociology. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Social Stratification and Change in India written by Yogendra Singh and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a profile of Indian sociology in terms of its concepts and theories. It also exposes the dilemmas and structural contradictions in the process of social stratification and change in India. It particularly examines concepts and processes of caste, class and peasantry, elites, social mobility, structural dif-ferentiations, policy of reservation and its impact in SCs/STs and OBCs
Download or read book Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caste and Social Stratification Among Muslims in India written by Imtiaz Ahmad and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising contributions on the system of caste-like social stratification among muslims (Islam) in India - examines social status, social mobility, the role of religion, political power and caste stratification, etc. In various ethnic groups located in different states. Bibliography after each paper and statistical tables.
Download or read book Sociology of Social Stratification written by Dipali Saha and published by Global Vision Pub House. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In This Book, Author Has Presented Multidimensional Approach Of Social Stratification In Western And Indian Sociology In Six Chapters: Social Stratification In Social System; Social Thought For Social Change; Social Class And Class Culture; Pattern Of Stratification Systems; Process Of Indian Social Stratification; And Caste Stratification In Indian Society. This Work Is An Ambitious, Scholarly, And Provocative, And Hopes This Book Will Stimulate Researchers And Professionals To Execute Researches In This Area.
Download or read book Social Stratification and Mobility written by Kanhaiya Lal Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to India.
Download or read book Social Stratification in India written by Kanhaiyalal Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a holistic understanding of the complexities of Indian society by analyzing the historical, cultural and political bases of social stratification. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, and political sociology, as also to concerned intellectuals and planners.
Download or read book Caste Class and Politics written by Anil H. Bhatt and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph presenting a profile of social stratification in modern India - analyses the relationships between political participation, social class and caste status, and attributes manifest social changes to the processes and structures of democracy. Bibliography pp. 210 to 215 and statistical tables.
Download or read book Castes Old and New written by André Béteille and published by Bombay ; New York : Asia Publishing House. This book was released on 1969 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Caste of Merit written by Ajantha Subramanian and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
Download or read book Social Stratification in Rural Society written by Arvind Kumar and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Stratification In Rural Society Contain The Following Chapters: Social Stratification In Rural Society; Functional And Conflict Theory Of Stratification; Stratification In Rigvedic Society; Studies On Social Stratification; Shaping Of The Traditional Pattern Of Stratification In India; Social Stratification In Industrial Setting In India; Social Stratification In Rural India; Value And Value Systems; Varna And Caste; Features Of The Caste System; Hierarchy, Status And Power; The Brahmanical View Of Caste; The Essence And Reality Of The Caste System; Occupational Mobility Of Castes; Transformation Of Class Structure In Contemporary Rural India; The Kinship System; The Study Of Kinship Systems And Jajmani System Etc.Substantially Based On The Findings Of Eminent Scholars In The Field, This Book Will Prove Of Utmost Use For The Scholars, Teachers, Social Scientists And Administrators Alike.
Download or read book Caste Class and Power written by Andre Beteille and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Download or read book Interrogating Caste written by Dipankar Gupta and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the individual castes. The idea of difference, and not hierarchy, determines the tendency of each caste to keep alive its discrete nature and this is also seen to be true of the various castes which occupy the same rank in the hierarchy. It is, in fact, the mechanics of power, both economic and political, that set the ground rules for caste behaviour, which also explains how traditionally opposed caste groups find it possible to align in the contemporary political scenario. With the help of empirical evidence from states like Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, the author illustrates how any presumed correlations between caste loyalties and voting patterns are in reality quite invalid. Provocative and finely argued, Interrogating Caste is a remarkable work that provides fresh insight into caste as a social, political and economic reality.
Download or read book The Republic of India written by Alan Gledhill and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transaction and Hierarchy written by Harald Tambs-Lyche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the author challenges a number of widely held cultural stereotypes about India. Caste is not as old as Indian civilization itself, and current changes are no more radical than in the past, for caste has evolved throughout its history. It is not a colonial invention, nor does it result from weak state control. There is no single form of Indian kingship, and power relations, fundamental as they are for understanding Indian society. Nor do Indian villages conform to a single type, and caste is as much urban as rural. Only in a regional ‘local’ perspective can we view it as a ‘system’. Caste does offer space for the individual, though in a particular Indian mould, and Hinduism does not provide for an integration of castes through ritual. In short, social organization varies widely in India, and cannot provide the key to the specificity of caste. This must be sought in the way society is imagined, the models of society current in Indian thought. Of course as mentioned above, there is no single model: Brahmins, kings, and merchants among others have all produced alternative models with themselves at the centre, vying for hegemony, while facing contesting models held by subalterns. Still, a hierarchical mode of thought is hegemonic and largely explains why Indians see their social stratification differently from people in the West. The volume will be indispensable for scholars of South Asian Sociology and Culture.
