The Structure of Indian Society

This book explores the structural features of Indian society, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, sanskritization and untouchability. Based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material, the book Interrogates the prevailing thinking in Indian sociology on these structures; Studies Indian society from contemporary as well as historical perspectives; Analyses caste divisions vis-aa-vis caste hierarchy; Critically examines the public policies regarding caste-less society, reservations for Backward Classes, and the caste census. This second edition, with four new chapters, will be a key text for students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, political science, modern history, development studies and South Asian studies

Caste · Endogamy · Genealogy · Geography · Grassroots · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Tribe · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts

• Considering the relevance of Jiddu Krishnamurti to contemporary Indian education

  Aarthi Srinivasan, Leon Benadé•Educational Philosophy and Theory•2024

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• Influence of Marriage on Women’s Participation in Medicine

  Open Access•Ayesha Masood•Sex Roles•2018

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• Professor Arvind Manilal Shah

  Open Access•Tulsi Patel•Sociological Bulletin•2021

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• M. N. Srinivas

  Open Access•Tulsi Patel•Journal of the Anthropological…•2020

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• Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India

  Open Access•Alice Tilche, Edward Simpson•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2018

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• The religion of India

  Max Weber•The religion of India•1958

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• Redemptive encounters

  Lawrence A Babb•Redemptive encounters•1986

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• Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat

  Michael N Pearson•Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat•1976

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• Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South Indian Kinship

  Louis Dumont•Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance…•2021

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• Homo hierarchicus

  Louis Dumont•Homo hierarchicus•1980

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• Kinship in Bengali culture

  Ronald B Inden•Kinship in Bengali culture•1977

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• An Untouchable Community in South India

  Michael Moffatt•Untouchable Community in South…•2015

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• Method and Theory in the Sociology of Louis Dumont

  Owen M Lynch•New Wind•1977

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• Purity, Impurity, Untouchability

  Open Access•A M Shah•Sociological Bulletin•2007

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• Manipur Vaishnavism

  Open Access•Kunj Bihari Singh•Sociological Bulletin•1963

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• In the Deep Blue Sea

  Open Access•Michelgugliebmo Torri•The Indian Economic & Social…•1982

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• New intellectuals in seventeenth-century India

  Open Access•Sheldon Pollock•The Indian Economic & Social…•2001

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• Six Decades of Urbanization in India 1901—1961

  Open Access•Ashish Bose•The Indian Economic & Social…•1965

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• A Note on the Hijadās of Gujarat

  Open Access•Ami M Shah•American Anthropologist•1961

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• Caste in a Tribal Society

  Open Access•N Sasikala Reddy•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1973

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• Jains, caste and hierarchy in north Gujarat

  Open Access•John E Cort•Contributions to Indian Sociology•2004

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• Pilgrimage with Krishna, Sovereign of the Emotions

  Open Access•Owen M Lynch•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1988

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• Sects and Hindu social structure

  Open Access•A M Shah•Contributions to Indian Sociology•2006

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• Division and hierarchy

  Open Access•A M Shah•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1982

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• Royal Marriages in Rajasthan

  Open Access•Frances Taft Plunkett•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1973

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• Traditions of Non-Caste Hinduism

  Open Access•David N Lorenzen•Contributions to Indian Sociology•1987

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• Capital and Crowd in a Declining Asian Port City

  Open Access•Lakshmi Subramanian•Modern Asian Studies•1985

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• Surat During the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century

  Open Access•Michelguglielmo Torri•Modern Asian Studies•1987

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• Commerce and Crafts in Gujarat

  R O W Goertz, Surendra Gopal•Pacific Affairs•1978

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• The Family in India

  Minakshi Tikoo, A M Shah•Journal of Marriage and the Family•1999

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• Untouchable

  Simon Charsley•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1996

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• Food from the Mouth of Krishna

  Joanne Moller, Paul M Toomey•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1995

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• Kin, Clan, Raja and Rule

  Alan Macfarlane, Richard G Fox et al.•Man•1972

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• Towns in the Tribal Setting

  Adrian C Mayer, Brij Raj Chauhan•Man•1972

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• Economic Development and Social Change in a South Gujarat Village

  J T Haines, V H Joshi•Man•1967

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• Rebellious Prophets

  K O L Burridge, Stephen Fuch et al.•Man•1966

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• Models of caste and the left-hand division in South India

  Open Access•Mattison Mines•American Ethnologist•1982

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• Human Ecology and the Population Concept

  Open Access•Edward Montgomery•American Ethnologist•1977

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