Caste: Observations of I.C.S. Officers and Other Since 1881

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The Portuguese usage of caste refers only to lineage and does not refer to any particular kind of division of grouping, purity or pollution. The genesis of caste is to be settled by comparative evidence and not based upon only on the verses of Rigveda. The four fold varna is elastic as per laws of Manu but sociologists and historians now believe they know more about the ancients than ancients themselves. The caste is in its nature rather a matter of sociology than religion. Sir James Lyallin nineteenth century has observed "One can observe caste growing before his eyes; the noble is changing into Rajput, the priest into Brahman, the peasant into a Jat; and so on down to the bottom of the scale". Even now process of caste formation is going on. No final decision has ever been made as to what constitutes a caste. It is too easily assumed that the caste label is fixed for ever. But caste is conditioned by human activity, and nature does not allow any rigid system to survive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR V Kannupillai

Dr. V. Kannupillai, after Post Graduations in Economics from Madras University, has served as a member of Indian Police Service since 1963 and was allotted Gujarat State. He served as Superintendent of Police in communal sensitive districts of Godhra, Junagadh, Rajkot and Bharuch; as Additional Commissioner of Police, Ahmedabad city during 1986 communal violence; and as deputy Inspector General if Police, Ahmedabad Range during 1987-1988 communal riots. He took M.B.A. and received Ph.D. from Gujarat University. He has contributed many articles at All India Police Science Congress and was guest faculty at national Police Academy and the other Police Training Institutes,. Dr. Kannupillai has to his credit two books An Introduction to Caste System and Politics in Tamilnadu and Hinduism Varna and caste.

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Title
Caste: Observations of I.C.S. Officers and Other Since 1881
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788190558365
Length
224p., Tables; Bibliography; 23cm.
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