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How do you justify Dumont’s deliberate stress on ideology that produced intellectualized account of Indian society?

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  • Caste System

The question concedes the description: Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) is avowedly an account of India's ideas, not of its observed behaviour. The defence is that this was a deliberate methodological wager which yielded what no behavioural sociology of India had produced — provided its costs are admitted.

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