1st Edition

Caste and Kinship in Central India A Study of Fiji Indian Rural Society

By Adrian C. Mayer Copyright 1960
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    310 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume I of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1960,this is a book about caste in a village of Central India and its surrounding region.

    PART I. THE BACKGROUND I. INTRODUCTION II. THE BACKGROUND III. CASTE MEMBERSHIP PART II. INTER-CASTE RELATIONS IV. CASTE AND RITUAL STATUS V. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF CASTE VI. CASTE AND VILLAGE LEADERSHIP VII. THE VILLAGE AS A UNIT PART III. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CASTE VIII. INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE CASTE IX. THE PLACE OF THE UNILINEAL DESCENT GROUP IM X. THE PATTERN OF MARRIAGE XI. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN KIN XII. SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE SUBCASTE XIII. CONCLUSION

    Biography

    Adrian C. Mayer