Sociology · Social Stratification
Dipankar Gupta's critique of the concept of 'Caste hierarchy' argues that castes are better understood as:
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- 1Occupational guilds that have outlived their economic function
- 2Discrete, non-ranked communities with internal solidarity rather than a unified hierarchy✓
- 3Colonial constructs with no pre-colonial basis
- 4Economic classes in disguise
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Discrete, non-ranked communities with internal solidarity rather than a unified hierarchy
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