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Status-seeking in Indian Villages

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Further Reading Suggested by the Author

  • Social Change in Modern India by M. N. Srinivas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966). A brief review of contemporary change in Indian society by one of India’s leading anthropologists.

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  • Systems of Society in India by David G. Mandelbaum (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, forthcoming). This article is based on a chapter in this larger work.

  • Caste, Class and Power by André Béteille (Berkeley: University of California, 1965). An excellent study of changing patterns of stratification in a village in South India.

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David G. Mandelbaum is professor of anthropology and chairman of the center for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is completing a book on the systems of society in India, and has written on the development of religion, a comparative view of hostility and aggression, and on modernization. This article is a condensed version of a paper presented to the American Anthropological Society in 1966.

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Mandelbaum, D.G. Status-seeking in Indian Villages. Trans-action 5, 48–52 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03180449

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