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Discuss the Louis Dumont’s concept of purity and pollution. How far these concepts are relevant in explaining the Hindu Caste system.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Caste System

Louis Dumont argued in Homo Hierarchicus (1966) that caste is not one more form of stratification but a distinct order generated by a single value, the opposition of the pure and the impure. The question has two demands: what the concept says, and how much of the Hindu caste system it actually accounts for. The…

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