Social inequality in India: Profiles of Caste, Class & Social Mobility (Second Edition)

Book Details

• Author: K.L. Sharma

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Language: English

• Edition: 2001

• ISBN: 9788170335214

• Publication Year: 1999

• Pages: 496

• Cover: Paperback

• Sale Territory: India Only

About the Book

Shaping of Social Stratification in India by K.L. Sharma offers a comprehensive study of India's social structure post-independence. The book analyzes the restructuring of Indian society, which seeks to transform the inegalitarian traditional social order into a more equitable system of relations. The focus is on understanding the theory, structure, and processes behind hierarchy and social inequality.

The collection of scholarly essays delves into the multinational, historical, and contextual nature of social inequality, emphasizing how caste, class, family, and individual function not only as units of social ranking but also as frameworks for shaping consciousness and social relations. Central themes explored include the interrelationship between caste and class, the role of education in reshaping the caste system, and the mobility of weaker sections such as Scheduled Castes and Tribes.

With its focus on caste, class, power, and social mobility, this book serves as an invaluable source for researchers, students, and scholars interested in understanding the complexities of Indian social structure.

Contents

1. Shaping of the Traditional Pattern of Stratification in India: An Analysis of Processes through the Ages – SHRIRAMA INDRADEVA

2. Stratification in Rgvedic Society: Evidence and Paradigms – SUVIRA JAISWAL

3. Sociologists and Inequality in India: The Historical Context – SATISH SABERWAL

4. The Reproduction of Inequality: Occupation, Caste and Family – ANDRE BETEILLE

5. Approaches to the Identification of Elites – SHEO KUMAR LAL

6. From Varna to Jati: The Indian Caste System, from the Asiatic to the Feudal Mode of Production – DIPANKAR GUPTA

7. Division and Hierarchy: An Overview of Caste in Gujarat – A.M. SHAH

8. Caste and Class: A Reinterpretation – VICTOR S. D’SOUZA

9. Caste and Class in Assam – R.K. BHADRA

10. Transformation of Class Structure in Contemporary Rural India – PRADIP KUMAR BOSE

11. Nature of Class Conflict in Indian Society – V.M. DANDEKAR

12. Green Revolution and Social Inequalities in Rural India – D.N. DHANAGARE

13. Social Stratification in an Orissa Village – JAGANATH PATHY

14. Power Elite in Rural India: Some Questions and Clarifications – K.L. SHARMA

15. Occupational Mobility of Castes in a North Indian Village – K.N. SHARMA

16. Stratification among Tribals in Gujarat – PRADIP KUMAR BOSE

17. Struggle of the Chamar Peasants for the Removal of Social Disabilities in a Feudal Estate (Uniara Thikana) in Rajasthan, 1946-47 – VIJAY KUMAR VASHISHTHA

18. Social Mobility and Status-Identification among the Scheduled Castes: A Synoptic View – NANDU RAM

19. Open Education and Closed Society: A Study of Social and Educational Inequalities in Contemporary India – EHSANUL HAQ

20. The Indian Institutes of Technology: Do they Contribute to Social Mobility? – C. RAJAGOPALAN AND JASPAL SINGH

About the Author / Editor

K.L. Sharma is the Vice-Chancellor of Jaipur National University, Jaipur. Formerly, he was Professor of Sociology and Rector (Pro-Vice-Chancellor) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and served as Vice-Chancellor of Rajasthan University from 2003 to 2005. He has been a Visiting Professor at College de France, Paris, multiple times between 1991 and 2006. Author of more than 20 books and 70 research papers, K.L. Sharma’s works are widely read and highly regarded by students and scholars of Sociology and related disciplines.