This volume has a range of select articles on different dimensions of the caste system in India. These articles have been divided into three parts. The first part deals broadly with conceptual and theoretical issues. The second part has empirical accounts of different dimensions of caste and the related daily experiences of the changes and continuities, with most of the articles looking at the patterns of social mobility among individual communities and sections of population. The third part focuses on different dimensions of the political sociology of caste and identity politics. INDICE: Series NoteForeword - Dipankar GuptaPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction - Surinder S JodhkaI: CONCEPTUALISING CHANGEVarna and Jati - André BéteilleCaste and Class: Some Aspects of Continuity and Change - Yogendra SinghA Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Caste - Yogesh AtalSanskritisation Revisited - A M ShahII: DIMENSIONS OF CHANGECaste in Transition - K M KapadiaSocial Mobility among the Madiga of Karnataka - Lalita ChandrashekharSocial Mobility and Conversion of the Mahars - Sunanda PatwardhanCo-operatives and Caste in Maharashtra: A Case Study - B S BaviskarIII: IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY AND POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF CASTEIdeology, Power and Resistance in a South Indian Village - N Sudhakar RaoThe Dalit Sahitya Movement in Maharashtra: A Sociological Analysis - Uttam Bhoite and Anuradha BhoiteCaste and Democracy: Assertion and Identity among the Dalits of Rural Punjab - Surinder S JodhkaCaste, Ethnicity and Problems of National Identity in Sri Lanka - Kalinga Tudor SilvaIndex
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