Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is Louis Dumont's treatise on the Indian caste system.
This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by MN Srinivas.
[2] He states that the ideology of caste system is fundamentally contrary to our idea of egalitarian society and arises from the nature, conditions and limitations of realisation of such a society.
We can not restrict ourselves to understand caste system only as a form of 'Social stratification'.
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