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Discuss the changes in the structure of power relationships of various castes at the regional levels.

  • UPSC 1991
  • Caste System

In the traditional order ritual rank, landholding and local authority tended to coincide. André Béteille (Caste, Class and Power, 1965) called this cumulative inequality and showed in Sripuram how it was becoming dispersed. The decisive point is that dispersal has taken a different shape in every region, because the identity of the old apex and…

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  • What drove the change
  • The regional variations
  • The entry of Dalit power, and its limits
  • Conclusion

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