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Analyse the changing nature of caste as a status group.

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  • Stratification and Mobility

Max Weber (The Religion of India, 1916) called caste the purest case of a status group: a community ranked by social honour, marked by a distinct lifestyle and closed through endogamy and commensal rules, with ritual sanction behind it. Each of these elements has changed, though at different speeds.

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  • Element-wise change
  • Processes driving the change
  • What persists
  • Conclusion

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