Social:Homo Hierarchicus

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Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is Louis Dumont's treatise on the Indian caste system.[1] It analyses the caste hierarchy and the ascendancy tendency of the lower castes to follow the habits of the higher castes. This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by MN Srinivas.[2]


References and Notes

  1. Dumont, Louis (1980) (in en). Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226169637. https://books.google.com/?id=XsOtRGdvIigC&printsec=frontcover&dq=homo+hierarchicus#v=onepage&q=homo%20hierarchicus&f=false. 
  2. Srinivas, M. N. (1956). "A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization". The Far Eastern Quarterly 15 (4): 481–496. doi:10.2307/2941919. ISSN 0363-6917.