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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Inequality among Brahmins.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Religion and Society in India

The Brahmins are a single varna and nothing like a single community. They are distributed across hundreds of endogamous jatis that rank one another, decline to eat together, and differ in language, deity, diet and calling. Inequality among them demonstrates two things: varna conceals jati, and ritual status and secular status move apart.

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  • One varna, many jatis
  • Purity without honour: the priestly disability
  • Class and power inside the varna
  • The modern layer
  • Conclusion

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