Day: January 17, 2019

Introduction The concept of dominant caste was given by MN Srinivas during the study of Rampura village in 1956. He observed that ritual status has not always provided superiority in rural context There are several other ways of exploring dominancy. In India in spite of rapid industrialization, land is still the main source of wealth, […]

Introduction Rooted in Folk-urban continuum given by Robert Redfield The TCC was given by Surjit Sinha in Indian context. G Bailley formed the TCC concept.

Introduction Caste shows mobility in upward as well as downward direction Upward movement is achieved by warfare, serving rulers,  population census,  sanskritization and westernization, politicization In download movement by de-sanskritization, tribalization and peasantization According to the Jati model of the caste system in India there are five groups which are arranged in a hierarchial order