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Highlight the important dimensions of inter – caste conflict in India.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Challenges of Social Transformation

Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) modelled caste as a consensual ritual order, which is exactly why it cannot generate conflict. André Béteille's finding that once-cumulative inequalities of rank, land and power have become dispersed supplies what Dumont lacks: incongruence between the three orders is what produces friction. B. R. Ambedkar's graded inequality adds the second…

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  • Ritual and status
  • Economic
  • Political
  • Spatial and social
  • Symbolic
  • Legal
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