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Caste Today
This work is a collection of papers which describe and anlyze the nature and significance of caste in contemporary India. They are based on ethnographic research carried out both in rural and urban areas, in north and south India, and among both Hindus and Muslims. This book shows how caste
today is increasingly about cutural separation rather than hierarchical rank, how it can become an idiom for class inequality, and why it can take on different forms between Muslims and Hindus. The work also discusses how the meaning and significance of case are becoming increasingly ambiguous for
the Indians today.
today is increasingly about cutural separation rather than hierarchical rank, how it can become an idiom for class inequality, and why it can take on different forms between Muslims and Hindus. The work also discusses how the meaning and significance of case are becoming increasingly ambiguous for
the Indians today.
- GenresIndia
304 pages, Hardcover
First published May 23, 1996
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March 19, 2021
How is the book?
Academic, Dry, Verbose, Technical.
Why read the book?
If one wants to know; how caste in India is studied by researchers?
As I am from Tamil Nadu; Chapters 5, 6, and 10 were relevant to me.
The Essays on Tamil Nadu is pertinent for me
This book was published in 1996, I'd say, some are outdated.
What is the Meat of the Book?
Well -- I'd make it easier for you, go through the outline.
Basically, continuing and change.
Although rigid, slow change is in process within traditions of Caste.
What are my own thoughts?
The narrative of Dravidian, Race and Politics were interesting; With regards to endogamous marriage, from late 1990's - to late 2020's, it's relevant - How?
When deciding for marriage, even among inter-caste marriage, many ask if a caste is acceptable or of higher caste.
As far of my understanding; Maybe Sociologists, Anthropologists might not be familiar with ground-reality of Caste i.e day-to-day role of it in villages, rural places.
I'd exhort Tamil People; to produce eminent sociologists, anthropologists, from the current generation.
They can construct, their own autonomous knowledge, that might be more accurate representation of society.
Deus Vult,
Gottfried
Academic, Dry, Verbose, Technical.
Why read the book?
If one wants to know; how caste in India is studied by researchers?
As I am from Tamil Nadu; Chapters 5, 6, and 10 were relevant to me.
The Essays on Tamil Nadu is pertinent for me
This book was published in 1996, I'd say, some are outdated.
What is the Meat of the Book?
Well -- I'd make it easier for you, go through the outline.
Basically, continuing and change.
Although rigid, slow change is in process within traditions of Caste.
What are my own thoughts?
The narrative of Dravidian, Race and Politics were interesting; With regards to endogamous marriage, from late 1990's - to late 2020's, it's relevant - How?
When deciding for marriage, even among inter-caste marriage, many ask if a caste is acceptable or of higher caste.
As far of my understanding; Maybe Sociologists, Anthropologists might not be familiar with ground-reality of Caste i.e day-to-day role of it in villages, rural places.
I'd exhort Tamil People; to produce eminent sociologists, anthropologists, from the current generation.
They can construct, their own autonomous knowledge, that might be more accurate representation of society.
Deus Vult,
Gottfried
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