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How do Louis Dumont and André Beteille differ in their approaches in understanding caste system in India? Explain.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Caste System

Louis Dumont and André Béteille stated their positions on caste within a year of each other, and could not have disagreed more. Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) derives caste from an idea held in common; Béteille's Caste, Class and Power (1965) derives it from what he watched change in one Tanjore village. The difference runs through…

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