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Critically evaluate Louis Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Caste System

Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) is at once the most ambitious and the most attacked book written on caste. Its ambition: to find the single idea generating the whole system and establish India as the structural opposite of the modern West. Its vulnerability: everything it claims is read from Brahmanical texts.

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