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In the context of the changing Indian society, how do you view Andre Beteille’s conceptions of harmonic and disharmonic social structures?

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  • Caste System

André Béteille took the contrast between harmonic and disharmonic systems from Louis Dumont and made it do empirical work in Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village (1965), developing it in Inequality Among Men (1977) and The Idea of Natural Inequality (1983). Its value today lies less in describing India's…

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