Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society by Dipankar Gupta

Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian Society

Dipankar Gupta

300 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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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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