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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Perspectives on the study of caste by M.N. Srinivas and Andre Beteille.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Caste System

M. N. Srinivas and André Béteille both displaced the textual account of caste with fieldwork, but they studied different objects. Srinivas studied the village as a working system of ritual and dominance; Béteille studied it as a site where distinct orders of inequality could be separated and compared.

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