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Rites and secularisation
on 201
Caste and secularisation 70
Gender and sanskritisation
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This volume derives from lectures given at the Academy of European Law, European University Institute.
An interdisciplinary volume comprising analysis from scholars of human rights, law and religion, political theory, religious studies and history.
Comparative in nature, the chapters draw on constitutional and political discourses from Western Europe, the United States, India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.
During the last few decades in particular, the economic, political and status dimensions of ritual have become increasingly conspicuous. (b)Caste and Secularisation: In traditional India, caste system operated within the religious framework. ... Such a changed role of caste has been described as secularisation of caste.India has undoubtedly the most complex and rigid system of social hierarchy in the world. It includes examples of virtually every known basis for defining and judging inequalities and for organizing the apportionment of differential power, privilege, well-being, and other …