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What are the features of M.N. Srinivas’ concept of dominant caste? How effective is it in understanding today’s reality?

  • UPSC 2013
  • Caste System

M. N. Srinivas built the concept from the field rather than from texts: asked who actually runs a village, Rampura answered not the Brahmin but the landowning Okkaliga peasant. Introduced in The Social System of a Mysore Village (1955), sharpened in The Dominant Caste in Rampura (1959) and restated in The Dominant Caste and Other…

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  • Features of the concept
  • Where it still reads today's reality well
  • Where it has weakened
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