01563nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200160007610000210009224501050011325000120021826000560023030000290028652010020031565000570131765500190137420260605123428.0260605b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780198077435  a305.512 BET  aBeteille, Andre.  aCaste, Class and Powerb: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Villagec/ Andre Beteille  a3rd ed.  aNew Delhib: Oxford University Press Indiac, 2014.  axxxvii, 295 p.c; 24 cm.  aCaste, Class and Power is an intensive study of the changing patterns of social stratification in a multi-caste village in South India, first published in 1965. This village provides the background for this unusual description of contemporary change in a traditional society reacting to outside pressures. It recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste - between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins, and the Adi-Dravidas. Beteille shows how the forces of modernization had rendered some areas of village life caste-free, while others were still governed by considerations of caste. The locus of power had shifted from the caste structure to more differentiated institutions such as the panchayats and political parties. With land coming into the market, the distribution of property was disassociated from caste. An intertwining of the still nascent political and economic condition  aCaste and social stratification in Tamil Nadu, India  aSocial classes