But Béteille was open to these sociological theories and his major contribution was to actually use the Weberian mode of analysis in his doctoral thesis on caste, class and power in a South Indian ...

A recent article by Andre Beteille, “India's destiny not caste in stone” argues that caste in fact is dying down, that it lives on mostly in consciousness, and that this is a result of the ...

“It is not my argument that the consciousness of caste is dying out and will cease to exist in the next 50 or even the next 100 years. But the growth and expansion of a new middle ...

Sociologist Andre Beteille recently wrote in these columns about caste reservations vitiating ... the fast surfacing biases of the intellectual class. The rot that has set in in Indian academia ...

Some sociologists and historians wanted to follow them in this regard by canvassing support with politicians in and out of power. But not André ... He has written books on caste in a Tamil village, on ...

#Pramath'sPick: One of India's foremost thinkers & #YIFP faculty Andre Beteille's autobiography ... He has written books on caste in a Tamil village, on the class structure of agriculture, on ...

Second, although it is impossible to say whether they are unique, Tamil Brahmans are extremely unusual in how fully they have been transformed into an urban middle-class caste, so that they now ...

CHANDIGARH:Attempting a sociological explanation of the situation prevailing in strife-torn Gujarat, renowned sociologist Andre Beteille ... sector 18, beteille that the role of caste in politics ...