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When this book was originally published in paperback in 1971, one of the most debated themes in Indian sociology was the meaning of the term caste. At one extreme was the argument that caste cannot be isolated from its religious matrix; on the other, that it is a rigid form of social class hierarchy. This book tested these two hypotheses against the data.Leach, Edmund R. is the author of 'Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North West Pakistan', published 1971 under ISBN 9780521096645 and ISBN 0521096642.
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