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Discuss the inter-relationships between caste, class and power.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Caste System

Caste, class and power are three analytically distinct orders of inequality — ritual status, economic position and political control — that in India have been at different moments fused, and are now partly prised apart. Max Weber's separation of class, status and party in Economy and Society (1922) supplies the grammar; Indian sociology supplies the…

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  • The Weberian triad and its Indian translation
  • From cumulative to dispersed inequality
  • The dominant caste as the joining point
  • Reduction and its limits
  • Conclusion

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