Caste class and occpation. (Record no. 10093)
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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 305.5 GHU |
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Personal name | Ghurye, G.S. |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Caste class and occpation. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Bombay |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Popular Book |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1961 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 356p. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | In 1921 when studying at Cambridge I chose caste as the<br/>subject of my research. Previously, while living in London<br/>for some time I had thought of combining the study of caste<br/>with that of class. The decision I took at Cambridge was<br/>the result of my preliminary study of the racial aspect of<br/>caste. It was by itself intricate enough to occupy me for the<br/>best part of two years which I could afford at Cambridge.<br/>At that time I could hardly dream of anyone approaching a<br/>similar avenue of study. But subsequent events showed that<br/>Prof. P. C. Mahalanobis was studying Bengal caste from a<br/>similar point of view. The results of my inquiry were<br/>accepted as one of the papers for the Ph.D. degree the<br/>Cambridge University in the first quarter of 1923. The paper<br/>"Ethnic Theory of Caste" after some delay was published in<br/>Man in India in 1924. Before I left Cambridge in April 1923<br/>I had signed a contract with Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co. for<br/>a book Caste and Race in India to be included in their series<br/>entitled History of Civilization, edited by C. K. Ogden. I had<br/>already prepared a tentative plan of not only the racial aspect<br/>but also the other aspects of caste and its historical setting.<br/>When at Bombay I sat down to it in 1924 I added to it as a<br/>natural conclusion the plan of analysis of contemporary trends.<br/>The final type-script of the book was despatched to the London<br/>publishers early in 1931 and the book was published by them<br/>in London in the beginning of 1932.<br/>Between the time my type-script of Caste and Race in<br/>India left me and its publication in the book-form a number<br/>of papers and books appeared here in India in quick succes-<br/>sion, demonstrating the fact that the subject of caste was in<br/>the air. The Report on the Indian Census of 1931 was pub-<br/>lished after my book but the anthropometric survey under-<br/>taken in connection with the Census was rather slow to<br/>appear. The Census Report contained Dr. Hutton's contribu-<br/>tion to caste. The anthropometric survey when published,<br/>created a little confusion in the beginning. Later on its grave<br/>defects were pointed out by me.<br/>My book, as extracts of some of the reviews so insistently<br/>printed by the present publishers will show, was almost uni-<br/>versally well received. It went out of print some years back,<br/>when owing to other pre-occupations I could not direct imme-<br/>diate attention to its revision. When I was almost free to do<br/>so I found that Dr. Hutton had forestalled me with his book<br/>Caste in India. Naturally I waited for some time.<br/>an<br/>During the interval of nearly twenty years from the time<br/>when the manuscript of Caste and Race in India was ready<br/>and the actual revision of it, the subject of caste as<br/>extreme case of social stratification has assumed a significance<br/>which was realized by me but was not common heritage of<br/>sociologists. The European institution of class, too, has come<br/>in for a more detailed and analytical treatment. A number<br/>of investigations to measure its strength, to unravel its precise<br/>nature, were made, more in the U.S.A. than in the U.K. The<br/>Marxian doctrine of class-war, since the success of the Rus-<br/>sian Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Regime,<br/>turned the attention of not only professional students but<br/>wise statesmen to the understanding of class structure. In<br/>the United States the Negro problem worried and worries a<br/>number of sociologists and statesmen. Its apparent affiliation<br/>to caste has naturally turned American attention to the study<br/>of caste. Racial differentiation brought to the forefront by<br/>the Nazis in Germany further oriented the subject. The<br/>result is seen in the much fuller treatment of class and caste<br/>in the recent edition of the best of English text-books of Socio-<br/>logy, Prof. R. M. MacIver's Society, which he has brought out<br/>in collaboration with Page. A little earlier Cox wrote a<br/>whole volume, which for the first time brought the three<br/>aspect of social differentiation, caste, class and race, together<br/>under one title. |
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