Changing brahmans: association and Elites among the kanya-kubjas of North India (Record no. 3199)

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Classification number 305.6945 Kha
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Personal name Khare, R.S.
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Title Changing brahmans: association and Elites among the kanya-kubjas of North India
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Chicago
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Chicago Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1970
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Extent 251p.
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Summary, etc. This book has two interrelated purposes. Based on available<br/>documentary and field data, it seeks to present a microsociological<br/>account of Kanya-Kubja Brahman caste associations. The second<br/>purpose is wider; for it relates to the problem of studying social<br/>change in a complex and diversified society, especially where tra-<br/>dition and modernity confront and compete in social reality. I<br/>have attempted to answer these questions: What is the relation-<br/>ship between the modern organizational and the traditional socio-<br/>cultural bases of Kanya-Kubja behavior? And, how do the pro-<br/>cesses of social change operate on the supposed dichotomy of<br/>tradition and modernity under the Indian situation?<br/>My approach is social-anthropological, seeking to see how far<br/>its concepts and techniques can be used in the analysis of social<br/>change in caste associations. Whenever necessary, I have turned<br/>to the other social sciences-especially sociology—for useful<br/>conceptual differentiations; but, as should be clear from textual<br/>discussions, I have avoided their “wholesale transportation."<br/>Thus, I have tried to be cautious about the wide-rather<br/>sweeping—ambience accorded to "caste and kinship" under so-<br/>cial anthropological emphasis, and about the relative polarities<br/>and rigidities in the use of such sociological concepts as “ascrip-<br/>tion," "voluntary organization,” and “achievement." Yet the<br/>analytical implications of such concepts, as I note in the Introduc-<br/>tion, are found to be helpful for explaining the organization of<br/>Kanya-Kubja caste associations (the sabhas)—a dynamic meet-<br/>ing ground of institutionalized and “organizational" (bureau-<br/>cratic) behavior. The study also tries to indicate the usefulness of<br/>such "adapted" conceptual tools beyond the sabha contexts.<br/>My contact with the Kanya-Kubja Brahmans started in 1957,<br/>when I was an anthropology teacher at Kanya-Kubja College<br/>My interest in their social organization was aroused in 1958 by<br/>the behavioral patterns of Kanya-Kubja colleagues and students.<br/>With candor the latter introduced me to their own caste group.<br/>My teaching assignments at the college lasted until the fall of<br/>the data col-<br/>1963; and during this period I continued, off and on,<br/>lection on the caste group through the help of my Kanya-Kubja<br/>friends. The topics of my inquiry varied from hierarchy and hy-<br/>pergamy to family rituals. Between January 1965 and June 1966<br/>I approached Kanya-Kubja Brahmans with a systematic and<br/>more intensive field program, including the problem of their<br/>caste associations.<br/>The substantive field material upon which this study is based<br/>was collected during this period in Lucknow and Kanpur. Living<br/>in Lucknow, I made frequent trips to Kanpur and several to the<br/>Fatehgarh-Farrukhabad (Kannauj) and Hardoi areas. About<br/>eighty-two prestigious Kanya-Kubja families were intensively<br/>studied through prolonged and repeated observations and inter-<br/>views. Often a single interview lasted for several hours. I now ob-<br/>served Kanya-Kubja Brahmans beyond the confines of the col-<br/>lege, which became so familiar during the 1957–63 period. As<br/>Brahmans and as officers, businessmen, contractors, priests, and<br/>clerks, and such, Kanya-Kubjas were found to confront and re-<br/>solve dilemmas of sociocultural change. Incentives and constraints<br/>of their adaptive relationships appeared in varied empirical situ-<br/>ations. In matters ranging from a daughter's marriage to a son's<br/>employment, they exhibited capacities to manipulate value param-<br/>eters and caste and kin resources on the one hand, and economic<br/>and organizational influences, on the other. As pragmatists as<br/>well as traditionalists, they handled the effects of modernization<br/>in various ways.
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