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9780195613957
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 1982 under ISBN 9780195613957 and ISBN 0195613953.
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