Recasting caste: from the sacred to the profane

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Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber's distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and deflect attention from intracaste differentiation and inequality. In contrast, by focusing on intracaste differences, Professor Singh demonstrates that caste hierarchy is grounded in a monopoly of land r…

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Full title :Recasting caste : from the sacred to the profane / Hira Singh.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SAGE Publications
Place of Publication:New Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 287 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9788132119807, 8132119800
oclc:ocn880878047
LC Classification:HT720
Dewey Decimal:305.5/1220954

Studying caste : ideas, material conditions and history -- Priest and prince : status/power muddle -- Varna to caste : religious and economic/political -- Caste and subaltern studies : elite ideology and revisionist historiography -- Inequalities between and within castes : kin, caste and land -- Changing land relations and caste : view from a village -- Indenture, religion and caste : the twin myths about Hinduism and caste.

Subjects

Caste Caste -- History. -- India Castes -- Histoire. -- Inde Hindouisme -- Histoire. -- Inde Hinduism Hinduism -- History. -- India History India SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies