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9780195608892
The winner of the prestigious G.S. Ghurye Award for Indian sociology, this analysis of Hindu caste and ritual departs from conventional empirical studies of local communities by drawing on selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, particularly the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra.Das, Veena is the author of 'Structure and Cognition : Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual', published 1978 under ISBN 9780195608892 and ISBN 0195608895.
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