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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Louis Dumont’s perspective on Indian caste system.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Caste System

Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966) is the most ambitious account of caste ever attempted: it seeks the one idea that generates the whole system, and argues that India is not a backward version of the West but its structural opposite.

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  • Ideology before behaviour
  • The single principle
  • Hierarchy, holism and the disjunction of status and power
  • The critical response
  • Conclusion

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