CONTENTS
Introduction to the Omnibus;
Caste, Class and Power
Changing Patterns of Stratificption in a Tanjore Village;
SECOND EDITION;
I. Introduction;
II. The Village: Its Physical Structure;
III. The Caste Structure;
IV. Economic Organisation and Social Class;
V. The Distribution of Power;
VI. Conclusion: Caste, Class and Power;
References;
Epilogue: Village Studies in Retrospect;
Appendix I: The Social Organisation of Temples;
Appendix II: The Tribulations of Field Work;
Index;
V.11 1 Contents;
The Idea of Natural Inequality and Other Essays;
SECO DEDITION;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction;
The Idea of Natural Inequality;
Homo Hierarchicus, Homo Equalis;
Harmonic and Disharmonic Social Systems;
The Backward Classes and the New Social Order;
The Pursuit of Equality and the Indian University Equality of Opportunity;
Individualism and the Persistence of Collective Identities;
Equality of Opportunity and the Equal Distribution of Benefits;
Index;
Equality and Universality;
Essays in Social and Political Theory;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction;
1. Equality and Inequality;
2. Class and Status;
3. Varna and Jati;
4. Caste in Contemporary India;
5. The Public as a Social Category;
6. Distributive Justice and Institutional Well-being;
7. The Reproduction of Inequality;
8. The Antinomies of Equality;
9. Hierarchical and Competitive Inequality;
10. Equality and Universality;
Appendix I: Amartya Sen's Utopia;
Appendix II: Equality and Individual Achievement;
References;
Name Index;
Subject Index;