Caste is the most dominant single aspect of Indian Society and no study of Indian Society can be complete without getting into the ramifications of the Hindu Caste system. Caste and Race in India, since its first publication in History of civilization series, edited by C.K. Ogden in 1932, has remained a basic work for students of Indian sociology and anthropology, and has been acclaimed by teachers and reviewers as a sociological classic. The present edition is ...
This work, considered by most of the outstanding social scientists of the world as the renowned author's magnum opus, afford the reader not only an insight into the past and present diversity of the dresses but gives him adequate data for the evolution of the Indian national costume.The pictures are a veritable feast. However, all this is a trifle compared to the vast amount of painstaking and careful scholarship of which every page in the book gives evidence ...