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    Economics, University of Delhi in 1959. Srinivas was born in a brahmin family on 16 November 1916. Srinivas earned his doctorate in sociology from the...
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  • Sreenivasan, Malayalam script writer and actor Srinivas Avasarala, actor Srinivasan Keshav, scientist Srinivas Kumar Sinha, Indian soldier Srinivasaraghavan...
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  • The Remembered Village is a 1978 ethnological work by M. N. Srinivas. The book is about the villager who lives in the small village, named as Rampura in...
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  • concept of dominant caste was introduced in 1959 by sociologist M. N. Srinivas. Srinivas asserts that to be a dominant caste, a caste must have the following...
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  • OCLC 5206379. Srinivas, M.N.; Shah, A.M.; Baviskar, B.S.; Ramaswamy, E.A. (1996). Theory and Method: Evaluation of the work of M.NSrinivas. New Delhi,...
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    become a sensitive and controversial subject. Sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas and Damle have debated the question of rigidity in caste and believe...
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    is a typical example of Sanskritisation as described by sociologist M. N. Srinivas. It is reported that they hail from the tradition of Mezhathur Agnihotri...
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  • Arvind M. Shah retired from his professorship in the Department of Sociology at the University of Delhi in 1996. He had been a student of M. N. Srinivas in...
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    the Colonial State in Bihar, University of California Press, 1999. M. N. Srinivas, Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, Delhi, 1995. Wikimedia...
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  • and the Brahminisation of their rituals. For example, the sociologist M. N. Srinivas, who developed the concept of sanskritisation, juxtaposed the success...
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  • or subnation. The term was first used by noted Indian sociologist, M. N. Srinivas in his 1955 paper entitled The Social System of a Mysore Village. He...
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  • Education: Brahmanical and Buddhist, Motilal Banarsidass, New Delhi (2011). M. N. Srinivas, Social Change in Modern India, Orient Longman, Delhi, 1995....
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  • of his career. Among the doctoral students he advised was the late M. N. Srinivas, the doyen among India's sociologists who coined some of the key concepts...
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    Kakavarna). K. N. Panikkar suggested that the Nandas were the sole Kshatriyas in India "at the time of the Mauryas" and M. N. Srinivas suggested that...
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    caste. Indeed, the term itself was coined by the Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas. Dalits are often used as a votebank. There have been instances where...
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    A. J. Agarkar, Y. M. Rege, L. N. Chapekar, M. G. Kulkarni, M. S. A. Rao, Iravati Karve, C. Rajagopalan, Y. B. Damle, M.N. Srinivas, A. R. Desai, D. Narain...
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    Trivikram Srinivas (born Akella Naga Srinivasa Sarma; 7 November 1971), often credited with his Pen name Trivikram also called Guruji and 3V at times,...
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  • ritual classification in which they are treated as "untouchables". M. N. Srinivas says that "any caste that achieved political power at the local level...
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  • 2023 Indian Kannada-language action heist thriller film directed by M. G. Srinivas and produced by Sandesh Nagaraj under Sandesh Production. The film stars...
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  • another Indian community. He notes that Gyanendra Pandey, Rao and M. N. Srinivas all assert that Yadav Sanskritisation was not a process to imitate or...
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    Bhatty, Zarina (1996). "Social Stratification Among Muslims in India". In M N Srinivas (ed.). Caste: Its Twentieth Century Avatar. Viking, Penguin Books India...
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  • Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi Perugu Siva Reddy Annapurna Devi Yudhvir Singh M. N. Srinivas Thenpattinam Ponnusamy Meenakshi Sundaran # Posthumous conferral 1954–1959...
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    Vokkaligas. They were mainly engaged in the rearing of cattle. According to M. N. Srinivas, the Hallikar were related to the Gollas and Kurubas. The namesake is...
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  • and the local and omnipresent category of jati is well brought out by M. N. Srinivas in his famous book The Remembered Village, ... Richard Sisson (1971)...
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    who like them claim the Kshatriya status of the Hindu varna system. M. N. Srinivas states that Khatri made different Varna claims at different times in...
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  • that had traditionally been classified as Shudra. The process, which M. N. Srinivas called sanskritisation, was a feature of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century...
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  • assertive in his arguments against religion' (C. Fuller, 'An interview with M. N. Srinivas', Anthropology Today, 15/5, 1999, 5), but the nearest he came to showing...
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    Corporation. Emeneau, M. B. (1988), "A Century of Toda Studies: Review of 'The Toda of South India: A New Look' by Anthony R. Walker; M. N. Srinivas", Journal of...
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    American sociologist Hasso Spode, German sociologist and historian M N Srinivas (1916–1999), Indian sociologist Susan Star, American sociologist Carl...
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    India, Lingayats were listed as shudras. According to the sociologist M. N. Srinivas, Lingayats traditionally believed themselves to be equal in status to...
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