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In the context of the caste system, critically examine Louis Dumont’s concept of purity and pollution.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Caste System

Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966; English 1970) seeks the single idea that makes caste a system rather than a list of groups, and finds it in the opposition of the pure and the impure. The concept is powerful as an account of an ideology and vulnerable the moment it is read as an account of…

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