From Higher Caste to Lower Caste: The Process of Asprashyeekaran
Shyamlal
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Book ID : 23994
ISBN-10 : 81-7033-395-8 / 8170333958
Place
of Publication :
Jaipur
Year
of Publication :
1997
Edition :
Language : English
191p., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Origin of the Bhangis: An Untouchable Caste; Asprashyeekaran through Ages; Conversion of Upper Caste into Lower Caste; A Process of Asprashyeekaran; High Caste Convert Bhangis of Rajasthan; High Caste Converts of Rajasthan and Utter Pradesh; Acquiring a Dalit Identity: Downward Mobility of Some Upper Caste into Bhangis; De-Sanskritization of Upper Caste into Bhagis; Contextual Trends and Processes: Impact of Jains; Impact of Maharishi Naval; Conversion to Jainism; Social Mobility Among Indian's Bhangis; Conclusion; Refelections of the Process;
DESCRIPTION
All studies on social mobility have been confined to upward mobility avilable to underpriviladge groups, particularly the lower casts. During the fifties, sixties and seventies and number of sociologists had reported, through their research studies, the change in the social structure of mobolity pattern of the schudled casts and schuduled tribes in the various regions of India.