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Structure and Change in Indian Society (Hardcover)
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Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the
anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced
distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure
and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies
of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these
trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also
in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of
social change more generally. The contributors demonstrate the
adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular
villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic
social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural
isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with
other social units through social and cultural networks of various
kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure
of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social
structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics,
economics, law, and language to the caste system. Showing that the
caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility
characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the
studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the
system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal
suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and
industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to
upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The
chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals
novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and
theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the
study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other
areas.
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