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Elaborate Srinivas’s views on religion and society among the Coorgs.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India (1952), M. N. Srinivas's Oxford doctorate based on fieldwork among the Kodavas of Coorg, is the founding text of the field view in Indian sociology. Its question is not what Coorgs believe but what their ritual does: how a small, martial, landholding community is held together,…

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  • The okka: the unit of Coorg society
  • The ritual idiom: madi and pole
  • The spread of Hinduism, and Sanskritisation
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion

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