Social stratification/
edited by Dipankar Gupta
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- 518 p.
- "Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology" .
Varna and caste / M.N. Srinivas -- Features of the caste system / G.S. Ghurye -- Multiple reference in Indian caste systems / McKim Marriott -- The ideology of purity / Pauline Kolenda -- The essence and reality of the caste system / C. Bouglé -- Dumont on the nature of caste in India / T.N. Madan -- The Brahmanical view of caste / Gerald D. Berreman -- The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher -- Continuous hierarchies and discrete castes / Dipankar Gupta -- Caste in a South Indian village / André Béteille -- The Jats of Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew -- Bhadraloks of Bengal / S.N. Mukherjee -- The untouchable's version: evaluating an ideal ascetic / R.S. Khare -- Kerala Christians and the caste system / C.J. Fuller. Endogamy and status mobility among Siddique Sheikhs of Allahabad / Imtiaz Ahmed -- The emergence of an industrial labour force in India / Morris, D. Morris -- Who are the working class? / M. Holmström -- Agrarian structure / Daniel Thorner -- The model of agrarian classes in India / D.N. Dhanagare -- Class and economic structure in Thanjavur / Kathleen Gough -- Tribal identity and class differentiation: the Chaudhri tribe / Ghanshyam Shah -- The dominant caste in Rampura ; Mobility in the caste system / M.N. Srinivas -- The new Cauhans: a caste mobility movement in North India / William L. Rowe -- Caste, class and power / André Béteille -- Agricultural failure: caste, class and power in rural West Bengal / Suraj Bandopadhyay and Donald Von Eschen. Mobility and conflict: social roots of caste violence in Bihar / Pradip K. Bose -- Two villages of Orissa: a study of caste disputes / F.G. Bailey -- Mobilization of landless labourers: the Halpatis of South Gujarat / Jan Breman -- Tribals in history: the case of Chota Nagpur / Romila Thapar and Majid Hayat Siddiqi -- The use of the Marxian method of class analysis / Gavin Smith -- Some principles of stratification: the functionalist position / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore -- Class, status and party / Max Weber -- Hierarchy, status and power: the caste system and its implications / Louis Dumont