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Write short note: Dominant caste and the agrarian power structure.

  • UPSC 1984
  • Rural and Agrarian Social Structure

M. N. Srinivas coined "dominant caste" from his Rampura fieldwork, setting it out in "The Social System of a Mysore Village" (1955) and "The Dominant Caste in Rampura" (1959), and elaborating it in The Remembered Village (1976). Its analytical force is that it makes local power secular: a caste can rule a locality without ranking…

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