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Write a note on Ghurye’s conception of caste in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Caste System

G. S. Ghurye, who built the Bombay department and trained India's first generation of sociologists, gave caste its first systematic Indian definition in Caste and Race in India (1932). His conception is attributional and Indological: caste is read from the attributes a group possesses, and those attributes are recovered from Sanskrit texts and history rather…

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  • The six features
  • Endogamy, and caste as an integrative framework
  • Race, origin and his later anxiety
  • Critique
  • Conclusion

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