Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer
Write short note : Basic features of traditional Hindu social organisation.
- UPSC 1990
- Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society
Traditional Hindu social organisation is not a bundle of customs but a system whose features presuppose one another. Irawati Karve, in Hindu Society: An Interpretation (1961), held that what united Hindus was never a creed but an interlocking apparatus of caste, kinship and ritual. Their interlock, not the list, is the point.
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- The normative core
- Groups: varna, jati and the purity scale
- Household, marriage and rites
- The economic interlock: jajmani
- How the features lock together
- The critique
- …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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