Louis Dumont On Caste Analysis

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Louis Dumont, the French sociologist, is considered India's logistics. Painters and son and grandson, and Dumont and his two professional engineers joined their creative imagination to see the long-term special interests of the world. From 1951, Dumont lectures, and wrote about caste. India is a unique symbol of unity and culture. His masterpiece, one step at a teaching-cum-research work of this sequence (in France, in 1966 in England, 1970), which is the most widely discussed work, translated into many languages, but have not yet entered any Indian theme. However, Dumont practice and a lot of analysis, discussion and further explanation of the available English translation of it an excellent opportunity for results. Dumont Indian in 1951, …show more content…

His caste understanding that emphasis on class property, which is why he is called ways to caste family. For his caste economic, political and kinship system by certain values, most of which sustained the religious relationship. Dumont says, a form of caste, is not hierarchical, but a special form of inequality, by its very nature must be deciphered by the sociologist. Here he established a hierarchy by supporting the fundamental values behind the Hindu caste system. Three genomic level according to Dumont entire Indian community and to be separated from each other and connected together in a large function …show more content…

He called the caste system as a system of ideas and values, which is officially recognized sound system. His analysis is based on a principle of pure impure opposition. This opposition underlies level, which means pure impure strengths and weaknesses. This principle underlies the separation, which means pure and impure must be separated. According to the research Dumont caste system, India's knowledge is very useful, it is a common important task of sociology. He focused on the need to understand the caste ideology as reflected in the classic texts, and other examples in history. He advocated the study with the ideology of the village social structure and build in the way of India's caste system. Dumont who has been established in a non-competitive program based on the hierarchical model of Indian civilization ceremony of his

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