Structure of Hindu SocietyOrient Blackswan, 1996 - 110 pages This book appears in English translation more than a quarter of a century after its first appearance in Bengali. The lucid and scholarly translation from the original Bangla Hindu Samajer Goran has been done by Andre Beteille. Prof. Beteille s introduction analyses the qualities of Bose s mind and work, especially as illustrated in this book and his preface to this revised edition enriches this valuable study. The author has undertaken an ambitious task in which he has attempted to identify the organising principles of Hindu society, the factors which ensured its continuity for centuries, and the forces by which it is ultimately weakened. This book is impressive in its design. It brings together, within a single framework, approaches which are ordinarily practised separately by ethnographers, Indologists and social historians. |
Contents
Andre Beteille | 1 |
A Note on The Translation | 22 |
Some Forest Dwelling Communities | 31 |
An Account of the Mundas | 41 |
The Spread of Brahminical Influence | 57 |
The Kolus or Telis | 73 |
The Establishment of Aryan Society in India | 87 |
The Nature of Aryan Culture in India | 96 |
The Nature of India | 102 |
The Ancient History of Caste | 117 |
History of the Middle Ages | 130 |
Trends of Change During British Rule | 140 |
The Present Position of the Caste System | 149 |
Social Movements among Various Castes | 156 |
The Hindu Method of Tribal Absorption | 168 |
Common terms and phrases
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