Table of contents:

Varna and caste / M.N. Srinivas --
Features of the caste system / G.S. Ghurye --
Multiple reference in Indian caste systems / McKim Marriott --
The ideology of purity / Pauline Kolenda --
The essence and reality of the caste system / C. Bouglé --
Dumont on the nature of caste in India / T.N. Madan --
The Brahmanical view of caste / Gerald D. Berreman --
The caste system upside down / Joan P. Mencher --
Continuous hierarchies and discrete castes / Dipankar Gupta --
Caste in a South Indian village / André Béteille --
The Jats of Punjab / Joyce Pettigrew --
Bhadraloks of Bengal / S.N. Mukherjee --
The untouchable's version: evaluating an ideal ascetic / R.S. Khare --
Kerala Christians and the caste system / C.J. Fuller. Endogamy and status mobility among Siddique Sheikhs of Allahabad / Imtiaz Ahmed --
The emergence of an industrial labour force in India / Morris, D. Morris --
Who are the working class? / M. Holmström --
Agrarian structure / Daniel Thorner --
The model of agrarian classes in India / D.N. Dhanagare --
Class and economic structure in Thanjavur / Kathleen Gough --
Tribal identity and class differentiation: the Chaudhri tribe / Ghanshyam Shah --
The dominant caste in Rampura ; Mobility in the caste system / M.N. Srinivas --
The new Cauhans: a caste mobility movement in North India / William L. Rowe --
Caste, class and power / André Béteille --
Agricultural failure: caste, class and power in rural West Bengal / Suraj Bandopadhyay and Donald Von Eschen. Mobility and conflict: social roots of caste violence in Bihar / Pradip K. Bose --
Two villages of Orissa: a study of caste disputes / F.G. Bailey --
Mobilization of landless labourers: the Halpatis of South Gujarat / Jan Breman --
Tribals in history: the case of Chota Nagpur / Romila Thapar and Majid Hayat Siddiqi --
The use of the Marxian method of class analysis / Gavin Smith --
Some principles of stratification: the functionalist position / Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore --
Class, status and party / Max Weber --
Hierarchy, status and power: the caste system and its implications / Louis Dumont.