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2021 22 Indian Society42 Having studied the structure and dynamics of the population of India inChapter 2, we turn now to the study of social institutions. A population is notjust a collection of separate, unrelated individuals, it is a society made up ofdistinct but interlinked classes and communities of various kinds. Thesecommunities are sustained and regulated by social institutions and socialrelationships. In this chapter we will be looking at three institutions that arecentral to Indian society, namely caste, tribe and CASTE AND THE CASTE SYSTEMLike any Indian, you already know that caste is the name of an ancient socialinstitution that has been part of Indian history and culture for thousands ofyears.
Christians and Sikhs. As is well-known, the English wor d ‘caste’ is actually a borrowing fr om the Portuguese casta, meaning pur e br eed. The wor d refers to a br oad institutional arrangement that in Indian languages (beginning with the ancient …
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