Castes: Old and New: Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification
by Beteille, Andre
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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About This Item
Bombay, India: Asia Publishing House, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. This book brings together the author's essays on social stratification in India, written between 1964 and 1966 and concerned primarily with problems of status and power; it discusses the changing positions of the Harijans and Adivasis, the middle classes, and certain sections of the Indian elite; the author was a sociologist at the University of Delhi (black cloth with gold lettering, pages slightly tanned, previous owner's name on front endpaper; brown & tan dust jacket is shelfworn with small edge tears and chips at ends of spine and folds, otherwise intact)
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- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Castes: Old and New: Essays in Social Structure and Social Stratification
- Author
- Beteille, Andre
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Asia Publishing House
- Place of Publication
- Bombay, India
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
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