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Write the features, characteristics of dominant caste????​

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Dominant Caste: Characteristics and Criticism of Dominant Caste

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Dominant Caste: Characteristics and Criticism of Dominant Caste!

The concept of ‘dominant caste’ was propounded by M.N. Srinivas. It was for the first time appeared in his essay on the social system of a Mysore village. While constructing the concept, perhaps Srinivas was unconsciously influenced by African studies on the dominant clan and dominant lineage. Srinivas developed the concept in his study of Rampura village which is a little away from Mysore city in Karnataka state. Srinivas, in fact, wanted to give a comprehensive study of Rampura.

To write down the details of the village he had gone to Stanford for writing down a monograph on Rampura. But there “by a strange quirk of fate all the three copies of my fieldwork notes, processed over a period of eighteen years” were destroyed when a fire took place in his