Caste and Class

Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class
Ramkrishna Mukherjee
fter the British conquered Bengal and eventually the whole of India, they set out to pass around the colony. In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the tattle of people to land for production (and not for revenue receiving, menage living, etc.), and (2) the set system of India, viz. the jati strati?cation of hostel. Soon they realized that the varna strati?cation of society (which denotes the varnas of Brahmansmainly the priests, Kshatriyathe warriors, Vaisyathe husbandmen, and Sudrathe lowly people) is not unique to Indian society. In the late 19th and early 20th century, J. banter (1896), H. Oldenberg (1897), E. Senart (1927), and others clari?ed that the varnas denote the status system in Hindu society, which (e.g. varnas) are found with different nomenclatures in other societies of the world. I had discussed this point in my book entitled The Dynamics of boorish Society (1957a). Yet, in 1962, M. N. Srinivas (1962: 63-69) rediscovered the distinction between varna and jati, and , in 1995, A. Beteille (1996:16) eulogised this pathbreaking try out of Srinivas at the All-India Sociological conference in Bhopal. But that jatis denoted the caste system of India was universally acclaimed; namely, the smallest endogamous groups of people within for each one varna.



The relation of Indian people to land for production (and the supplementary activities of trade and petty craft production) did not, at ?rst, undergo this merciful of confusion. It was found by the British researchers in the 18th-

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journal of world-systems research, vi, 2, summer/fall 2000, 332-339
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