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020			_a9780198077435
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100			_aBeteille, Andre.
245			_aCaste, Class and Power _b: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village _c/ Andre Beteille
250			_a3rd ed.
260			_aNew Delhi _b: Oxford University Press India _c, 2014.
300			_axxxvii, 295 p. _c; 24 cm.
520			_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
650			_aCaste and social stratification in Tamil Nadu, India
655			_aSocial classes
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