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‘Many caste conflicts are between castes which are close to each other on the hierarchical scale.’ Give a sociological explanation for this phenomenon.

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  • Challenges of Social Transformation

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Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) describes an order so completely agreed that conflict should be impossible, since every jati accepts its rank. The statement is the standing refutation: violence clusters where ritual distance is least. The mechanism behind it shows caste to be a competitive system, not merely a ranked one.

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