Sociological analysis of Hindu caste and ritual has hitherto been confined to the empirical study of local communities. This work adds a new dimension to such analysis by basing its data on an examination of selected myths in Puranic and Sutra literature, in particular the Dharmaranya Purana and the Grihya Sutra, thus going to the sources of the ideology that have given local communities their particular shape and character.
- ISBN10 0195626516
- ISBN13 9780195626513
- Publish Date 30 July 1992 (first published 31 August 1978)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 September 2008
- Publish Country IN
- Imprint OUP India
- Edition New ed of 2 Revised ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 184
- Language English