Caste and Kinship in Kangra 1st Edition by Jonathan Parry 9780415330497 0415330491

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ISBN 10: 0415330491

ISBN 13: 9780415330497

Author: Jonathan P. Parry

This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes.The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the way in which ‘traditional’ family structures adapt to a diversification of the economy and the debate about the ‘instability’ of regimes of generalized exchange.Originally published in 1979.

Table of contents:

1 Inter-caste relations

1 Introduction: the axiom and idiom of inequality

2 The setting

2:1Geographical sketch

2:2Historical sketch

2:3Administrative sub-divisions

2:4The settlement pattern

2:5Land tenure: a historical note

2:6‘Village’officials

2:7‘Mauza’ Chadhiar

3 The economy

3:1The remittance economy

3:2Landlords, labourers and tenants

3:3The dominant caste and the control of resources

3:4Caste and the division of labour

3:5Conclusion

4 The hierarchical aspects of caste

4:1Introduction

4:2‘Jat’ as genus

4:3The hierarchy in terms of attributes

4:4Interactional relations

4:5Degrees of untouchability9

4:6The politics of social mobility: the Koli case

2 The internal structure of the caste

5 Clans and their segments

5:1Introduction

5:2Clans and ‘gotras’

5:3Sub-clans and lineages

5:4Clan-segments, deities and shrines

5:5Deference within the sub-clan

6 Households and their partition

6:1The decay of the joint family system

6:2The problem of definition

6:3The ideal of joint living

6:4The rules of inheritance

6:5Household composition

6:6Partition as the outcome of personal conflict

6:7Partition: the constraints on choice

6:8The causes of partition

7 Rajput hypergamy in an historical perspective

7:1Preliminary considerations

7:2The holistic ‘biradari’ formula

7:3The attributes and interactions of ‘biradaris’

7:4The relative wealth of ‘biradaris’

7:5The consequences of hypergamy for the Mians

7:6The rules of exogamy

7:7The consequences of hypergamy for the Rathis

7:8Rajputs and Rathis

7:9Legitimacy and the validity of marriage

7:10Bride-price and dowry

8 The ‘biradari’ reform movement

8:1Introduction

8:2The Rajput evidence1

8:3The return to hierarchy

8:4The Nurpur variant

8:5The Brahmans and Temple priests

8:6Comparative evidence

8:7The predisposing causes

8:8Instability or oscillating equilibrium?

9 Marriage strategies

9:1Status and standing

9:2The spouse’s credentials

9:3The manipulation of ‘als’

9:4The status of the wife-givers

9:5The repetition of marriage

10 Affines and consanguines

10:1The kinship terminology

10:2Inter-personal relations between ‘ristedar’

10:3The ‘ristedar’ of the ‘ristedar’

10:4Comparative implications

11 Conclusion: The limits of hierarchy

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