Homo Hierarchicus
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Homo Hierarchicus: Essai sur le système des castes (1966) is Louis Dumont
's treatise on the Indian caste system.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3618813.html This book analyses the caste hierarchy and the ascendancy tendency of the lower castes to follow the habits of the higher castes. This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by M.N. Srinivas.
Louis Dumont (anthropologist)
Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist. He was an associate professor at Oxford University during the 1950s, and director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris...
's treatise on the Indian caste system.http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo3618813.html This book analyses the caste hierarchy and the ascendancy tendency of the lower castes to follow the habits of the higher castes. This concept was termed as Sanskritisation by M.N. Srinivas.