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Elaborate on M.N. Srinivas’s structural-functionalist approach to the study of Indian society.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

When M. N. Srinivas began writing, Indian society was being read off its scriptures. His achievement was to replace the book view with the field view and then to make the resulting ethnography carry a general theory: India as a working system of interrelated parts, integrated by caste, ritual and locality, and able to change…

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  • The methodological shift: from book view to field view
  • Structure: caste as the architecture
  • Function: how the system reproduces itself
  • Change made a functionalist problem
  • Limits
  • Conclusion

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