April 2012
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
12h 18m
English
According to Gail Omvedt, caste is a dominant factor in State Politics. Caste is a system in which a person's membership in the society is mediated through his/her birth in a particular group, and which is assigned a particular status with a broad social hierarchy of such groups. This group has particular accepted occupation or range of occupation and only within it a person can marry, and carry on close social relations such as interdining.1 It is primarily a social phenomenon with the sub-caste being the most enduring element within it as a primary unit of the social system of kinship.
In the course of time, caste system ...
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