Caste Hierarchy and social change: a study of myth and reality (Record no. 18942)

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Classification number 305.5 GUP
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Personal name Gupta, A. R.
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Title Caste Hierarchy and social change: a study of myth and reality
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Jyotsna Prakashan
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1984
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Extent 208p.
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Summary, etc. The fundamental characteristics of the<br/>Hindu caste structure are (i) the concept<br/>of ritual purity, (ii) status and ()<br/>restrictions of endogamy (in regard to<br/>marriage) and commensality (in regard to<br/>community meals) Today, the Indian<br/>Constitution and the legal set-up provide<br/>no place for any form of institutionalised<br/>inequality. However, it would be highly<br/>unrealistic to ignore the socio-psychological<br/>fact that only institutional or legal reform is<br/>hardly enough to transform the structure of<br/>values and standards of behaviour in a<br/>society.<br/>In analysing the caste system one needs a<br/>dispassionate and realistic appraisal of this<br/>system in order to apply to the Indian<br/>society the dynamic concept of social change<br/>which has already ushered in India with the<br/>expansion of education and intellectual and<br/>professional preparation (open to all)<br/>directed to bring about a<br/>cultural and<br/>and economic emancipation of the whole<br/>society from all forms of exploitation and<br/>injustice.<br/>The interplay of the newly emerging criteria<br/>of status in the wake of the increasing<br/>contact with the<br/>the West, commercial and<br/>industrial development throwing open jobs<br/>and professions requiring intellectual and<br/>professional preparation with no conside-<br/>ration of caste vis-a-vis the caste hier-<br/>archy can hardly be ignored. The most<br/>important point for consideration today is<br/>how to control the natural human tendency<br/>of self-distinction leading to the creation of<br/>of classes based on segregative and separatist<br/>tendencies which is a natural manifestation<br/>of the human psychlogical fact and results<br/>into the development of dual personalities<br/>with convictions quite distinct from their<br/>claims.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Caste India .
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