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Write short note: Convergence of class and caste.

  • UPSC 1987
  • Caste System

Convergence refers to the degree to which ritual caste rank and economic class position coincide, so that knowing one predicts the other. André Béteille's Caste, Class and Power (1965) supplied the vocabulary: inequalities are cumulative where caste, class and power rest in the same hands, and dispersed where they have come apart. Contemporary India shows…

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  • The classical correspondence and its loosening
  • Evidence of continuing convergence
  • Evidence against simple convergence
  • Conclusion

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