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Interrogating caste : understanding hierarchy and difference in Indian society /
The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbitrary and valid only from the perspective of the indi...
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Format: | Printed Book |
Language: | English |
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New Delhi ; New York, NY :
Penguin Books,
2000.
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University of Calicut
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305.5/122/0954 GUP/I |
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