Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village (Oxford India Paperbacks)

This work deals with the relationship between three fundamental aspects of social stratification, and provides a method for describing and analyzing variation and change in systems of stratification. This new edition incorporates significant additional material in the form of two appendices, dealing with issues of substance and method, and an epilogue which surveys the changing fortunes of village studies in India. Study of Thanjavur District. This classic provides an unusual description of contemporary change in a traditional society reacting to outside pressures. The second edition incorporates significant additional material in th form of two appendices and an epilogue which surveys the changing fortune of village studies in India.