CASTE CLASS AND POWER THIRD EDN P

In Caste Class and Power André Béteille 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. Based on extensive field study carried out in a South Indian village the book presents the different ways of studying the themes of caste and class.