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300 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140297065
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publication date: 01 January 2000
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The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbi...
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300 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140297065
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publication date: 01 January 2000
Description
The caste system has conventionally been perceived by scholars as a hierarchy based on the binary opposition of purity and pollution. Challenging this position, leading sociologist Dipankar Gupta argues that any notion of a fixed hierarchy is arbi...