CONTENTS Introduction 1 1Yogendra Singh Sociology and Social Revolution in India : Challenges and Responses 19 2Dipankar Gupta Civil Society, State and Communication 28 3Ravindra K. Jain Exclusion and Inclusion: Ethnicity and Race Relations in Trinidadian Indian Diaspora 36 4S.M. Michael Religious Conversion and Social Mobility in India47 5S.M. Dahiwale Non-Brahmanic Perspective on Indian Society 62 6Shyamlal Asprashyeekaran-Dalitization through Ages 81 7Heinz Werner Wessler The Hindi Literary World and Dalit Assertion: A Western Perspective 94 8Rajiv Gupta Pride and Prejudices in Education : The Shaping of Hierarchies 106 9D. SundaramCulture of Hierarchy and Power : Local Socio-Historical Perspectives - Indian Case Study 117 10 S.L Doshi Class, Status and Gender : Social Stratification among Tribes of India 127 11 Ranjita Mohanty Caste, Class and Ecology Movements 145 12 P.C.Jain Tribal Family : Towards Structural Mobility 158 13 Vinay Kumar Srivastava Raika Jati and Its Dharmic Order 165 14 Ajit K. Pandey Jharkhand Movement, Tribal Social Structure and Marxist Theory 188 15 Arvind Kumar Agrawal A Note on Talcott Parsons' Pattern Variables 200 16 Ananta Kumar Giri Reflections and Mobilizations : Development as Global Responsibility 208 17 Sanjay MishraUrban Crisis in Post-Liberalization Period : Implications for Urban Industrial Social Stratification 227 18 J.S.Gandhi Socio-cultural Construction of Competence and Professional Hierarchy 234 19 Veronique Dupont Residential Practices in the Public Sector Housing Stock of a Major Indian Metropolis : The Case of DDA Flats in Delhi 259 20 Ramkrishna Mukherjee On Rural Transformation 274 21 Pa ram jit S. Judge Understanding Continuity in Indian Villages 277 22 Surinder S. Jodhka and Paul D'Souza Marginalization and Return : Agrarian Studies in India during the 1990s 293 23 B.K. Nagla Factionalism and District Level Politics in Rajasthan : A Sociological Study of Factional Politics in Udaipur District from 1954 to 1971 315 24 Gerard Fussman Brahmin, Widow and Businesswoman 333 25 Nilika Mehrotra Gender and Disability Management in Rural Haryana 336 26 Renuka Singh Young Women: An Emerging Force in India 343 27 Shrirama and Indra Deva Crystallization of the Traditional Pattern of Stratification in India 349 28 Andre Beteille Caste in Contemporary India 367 29 Sunanda Pande Occupational Mobility among Backward Castes388 30 Madhu Nagla Social Inequalities in Health and Nutrition among Children of Haryana 398 31 Anand Kumar Religious Violence in South Asia : Limits of Majoritarian Nation-building in a Syncretic Civilizational Complex 417 Contributors 425 Index 427