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Give a critical analysis of Andre Beteille’s study of Tanjore village.

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  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

André Béteille's Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village (1965), based on fieldwork in Sripuram in the Kaveri delta in the early 1960s, is the most influential empirical challenge to Louis Dumont's reading of Indian society. Its claim is Weberian: caste, class and power are three distinct orders of inequality,…

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