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      Sociocultural Stratification of India

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            [Over the last fifty years, caste and communal differences in Indian society have been asserting themselves in increasingly violent forms, with more powerful groups attempting to brutally suppress others, and the latter striking back through mass movements for rights. The Indian state remains determined to see the country as one nation, turning a blind eye to the caste, religious, ethnic, and linguistic heterogeneity of Indian society, and attempting to address the growing challenge to its political cohesion with ill-conceived repressive measures. Clearly, in the case of India, studying culture with the "nation" as the unit of analysis is misleading and leads to ineffective, even damaging, sociopolitical policies. The solution to the crisis lies in India's finding a social theory that accepts the great diversity of human situations on its soil and yet provides coherence through an active sociocultural process.]

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            polipers
            10.2307/j50009730
            Policy Perspectives
            Pluto Journals
            18121829
            1 January 2011
            1 June 2011
            : 8
            : 1
            : 49-63
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            10.2307/42909266
            71d85747-5f87-4fc0-86a1-042e04231a4c
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            [Footnotes]

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            2. Roth, "The Effects of Culture and Socioeconomics, " 166.

            3. Rangarajan, "The Future of the Environment," 294.

            4. Stern, Changing India.

            5. Uberoi, Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, 45.

            6. Ibid., 294.

            7. Chatterjee, "Beyond the Nation? Or Within."

            8. Rajagopal, "Thinking Through Emerging Markets." 131.

            9. Srinivas, "Changing Institutions and Values in Modern India," 172.

            10. Lenartowicz and Roth, "Does Subculture within a Country Matter?" 321.

            11. Herskovits, Cultural Anthropology, 305.

            12. Winick, Dictionary of Anthropology, 144.

            13. Kroeber and Kluckhon, Culture.

            14. Herskovits, Cultural Anthropology, 305.

            15. Groeschl and Doherty, "Conceptualizing Culture," 12.

            16. Weber, "The Development of Caste," 28.

            17. Raina, "Political Diversity, Common Purpose.

            18. Chhokar, "India."

            19. Ibid.

            20. Rangarajan, "The Future of the Environment" 45.

            21. Srinivas, "Changing Institutions and Values in India," 4.

            22. Ibid.

            23. Raina, op. cit.

            24. Srinivas, op.cit., 3.

            25. Srinivasn, Caste in Modern India and Other Essays, 41.

            26. Deol, "Cultural Plurality and National Integration," 25.

            27. Srinivas, op.cit., 5.

            28. Bhatnagar, "India's Pluralistic Culture," 39.

            29. Chhokar, op.cit.

            30. Ibid.

            31. Beteille, "Family and Reproduction of Inequality," 445.

            32. Society in India.

            33. Ibid., 525.

            34. Das, India Unbound.

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            42. Chaudhary, Listening to Culture, 8.

            43. Deol, op.cit., 25.

            44. Stern, op.cit, 19.

            45. Ibid., 20.

            46. Ross, "Some Social Implications of Multilinguism," 214.

            47. Hasnain, op. cit., 156.

            48. Ibid.

            49. Ibid.

            50. Stern, op.cit., 19.

            51. Ibid.

            52. Kumar, "Slow and Almost Steady," 12.

            53. Stern, op.cit., 37.

            54. Chaudhary, op.cit., 106.

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            56. Hasnain, op.cit., 153.

            57. Ibid., 156.

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            65. Trautmann, op.cit.

            66. Gough, "Brahmin Kinship in Tamil Village.

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            69. Ibid., 153.

            70. Nongbri, "Gender and Khasi Family Structure."

            71. Bandyopadhyay, "Race, Nation and Sport," 1.

            72. Karve, op.cit.

            73. Ibid.

            74. Singh, K. S. et al., op.cit., XXV.

            75. Ibid., XXIV.

            76. Ibid., 17.

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            78. Kakar et al., "Leadership in Indian Organization, 241.

            79. UNICEF, op. cit.

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