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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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Main Author: Gupta, Dipankar
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2000.
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