TY  - GEN
AU  - Mandelbaum, David G.
TI  - Society in India
SN  - 9789386042286
U1  - 306.0954 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Families
KW  - Caste
KW  - Manners and customs
N1  - Volume One: Continuity and Change

INTRODUCTION 
Task, Concepts, and Scope 
The Basic Groups and Groupings

FAMILY AND KINSHIP RELATIONS 
Family 
Family Roles: Boy and Man 
Family Roles: Girl and Woman 
Family Cycle: Formation and Maintenance 
Family Cycle: Growth and Completion 
The Wider Ties of Kinship

RELATIONS AMONG PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT JATIS 
The Interdependence of Families and Jatis 
Criteria for the Ranking of Jatis 
The Social Relevance of Ritual Pollution and Purity 
Secular Criteria and the Attribution of Jati Rank 
Cultural Variations and the Jati Order

RELATIONS WITHIN THE JATI 
Alliances and Sections within the Jati 
Opposition and Cohesion within the Jati-group 
Maintaining the Jati: Leaders and Panchayats 
The Uses of Panchayats 
Jati Enterprises and Functions

Volume Two: Change and Continuity

VILLAGE, REGION, CIVILIZATION 

Village: Separate Hearths and Common Home 
The Village: Internal Regulation 
The Wider Ties of Village: Centers and Regions 
The Villager and Some Perennial Problems of Civilization

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOBILITY 
Jati Mobility 
Cultural Adaptations and Models for Mobility 
Mobility Tactics: Overcoming External Opposition 
Maintaining Internal Cohesion: Fission and Fusion 
Modern Means for Jati Improvement: Associations and Federations

RECURRENT CHANGE THROUGH RELIGIOUS AND TRIBAL MOVEMENTS 
Social Regrouping through Indigenous Religions 
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Muslims 
Social Aspects of Introduced Religions: Jews, Parsis, Christians 
The Accretion of Tribal Peoples 
Direction of Tribal Change

CONTINUITIES AND TRENDS 
Psychological Forces, Social Processes, and Systemic Shift 
Trends

APPENDIX: THE CONCEPTS OF SYSTEM AND OF STRATIFICATION 
Uses of the concepts 
What kind of system is a "caste system"?
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