GGR267H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Friendly Fire, Mandal Commission, Louis Dumont
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Caste: dividing people born into hierarchical groups based on relative purity and closeness to. Another way to organize society; to classify individuals in terms of their inherited social. Varna: varna refers to a large division that includes various castes. Jati: another word for caste. another way to organize society; to classify individuals in terms of. It was a mutual/symmetrical system where people would exchange things. One way schoalrs looked at the caste system is the economics of it what you need, and you give me what you need. Then marx questioned who really had the advantage, and the brahmans who had the land, had the power in negotiations. They had a privileged direct access to the food supply. Its what you deal with physically in your manual labor. Brahmans dealt with god, sudras were street cleaners. Sen sees class as a source of inequality and disparity, which includes inequality in gender, caste, region, and community.
